Every day, 200 billion spam email messages (not Spam the food) are mailed out. Spam accounts for 90 percent of all emails sent, according to Cisco Systems, the company whose products power the Internet. Daniel Balsam was a marketer in San Francisco 8 years ago when he got one spam message too many and snapped. Daniel Balsam quit his job, enrolled in law school at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and became a full-time anti-spam email crusader. Dan has cost the spammers well over $1 million dollars in fines and court fees thanks to his tireless efforts, but his success has created critics.
“He really seems to be trying to twist things for a buck,” said Bennet Kelley, a defense lawyer who has become the anti-Dan as a defender of spam companies. “There is nothing wrong per se with being an anti-spam crusader, but Dan abuses the processes by using small claims court. A lot of people will settle with him to avoid the hassle.”
If Dan Balsam is actually twisting things to make a buck off of spam companies, good for him. They’ve been making money off of gullible people for years, so it’s about time someone’s taking them to the mat and besting them at their own game via the legal system. As far as I’m concerned, Daniel Balsam quit his job to crusade against spam and he’s got a right to make a living for all the good work he’s doing on behalf of others like myself.
To find out more about Dan’s anti-spam crusade, check out his website DanHatesSpam.com for more information.
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