Bigfoot Files Multi-Count Suit Against CyberPromotions, Inc.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1997-- Suit alleges violation of the Electronic Communications Act The establishment of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1934, the regulatory body for interstate and foreign telecommunications. Its mission is to provide high-quality services at reasonable cost to everyone in the U.S. on a nondiscriminatory basis. , fraud and libel Bigfoot Partners L.P., today filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against CyberPromotions, Inc. and its CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Sanford Wallace Sanford "Spamford" Wallace is a spammer who came to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original Spam King. Career In the late 1990s, his company, Cyber Promotions, aka Cyberpromo, was widely blacklisted as a source of unsolicited email. for continued and deliberate misuse of the Bigfoot service and fraudulent use of the Bigfoot service mark. The suit is intended to stop CyberPromotions from engaging in activities which are detrimental to Bigfoot and its customers. The suit, filed in United States District Court United States District Court In the U.S., any of the 94 trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal judicial system. Each state, as well as the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, has at least one federal district court. for the Southern District of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , brings charges against CyberPromotions ranging from a direct violation of the Electronic Communications Act to consumer fraud and libel. Bigfoot supports these claims with thousands of archived messages indicating CyberPromotions involvement, or the involvement of their customers that use CyberPromotions "spam-oriented" services, like auto-responders or e-mail drop-boxes. "We pride ourselves on being leaders in the fight to protect e-mail users from predatory, unsolicited mail, which wastes user time, money and system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. ," says Leonard Barshack, co-founder and chairman of Bigfoot Partners, L.P. "By fraudulently using Bigfoot's domain name, CyberPromotions has been misrepresenting us to web users and engaged in adirect attack on our business." The 13 count suit is in response to CyberPromotions' alleged repeated use of Bigfoot addresses for their unsolicited e-mail campaigns, an activity expressly prohibited by the Bigfoot user agreement. CyberPromotions and their customers have also allegedly undertaken the practice of creating false addresses at the Bigfoot domain and using these addresses in their mass e-mails. The e-mails have included illegal pyramid schemes, fraudulent "get-rich-quick" scams and still others promoting cyber-porn. Sanford Wallace and CyberPromotions have recently been removed from a number of ISP's and a Federal Judge's ruling on Tuesday, September 30allows AGIS, CyberPromotions' current ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. , to shut down their connection as of October 16, 1997. Bigfoot considers the court's ruling to be a step in the right direction and hopes that its suit will shut the door on the unethical use of unsolicited e-mail by anyone connected with CyberPromotions, Inc. "Our pursuit of damages incurred as a direct result of CyberPromotions activities is only part of this suit," adds Barshack. "We want to send a message to everyone who uses e-mail in this unethical manner, that it is not tolerated and will result in penalties that far outweigh the potential gain." Founded in 1995, Bigfoot is the worldwide leader in comprehensive e-mail and Internet directory services. With its free Bigfoot for Life permanent e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address service and suite of e-mail management tools, Bigfoot offers individual and corporate users the ability to customize their e-mail to create a powerful, effective communications tool. Through its Bigfoot Directory services, Bigfoot provides Netizens the most accurate people directories on the Web. Company headquarters are in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Bigfoot's World Wide Web address (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) is www.bigfoot.com, e-mail should be sent to info@bigfoot.com. Bigfoot is a service mark of Bigfoot Partners, L.P. -0- A copy of the suit is available at http://www.bigfoot.com/cyberpromo.htm CONTACT: Bigfoot Shandwick David Finkel Sean Conway 212-262-1118 529-1717 x855 dfinkel@bigfoot.com sean_conway@bigfoot.com |
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