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Amazon.com, Microsoft Team Against Online
Fraud
September 2004
Amazon.com, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today
announced the filing of several lawsuits against
phishers and spammers who targeted consumers by
spoofing Amazon.com's domain name and perpetrating
phishing scams with spoofed Amazon.com Web sites.
The two Washington companies have teamed up in an
attempt to eliminate e-mail scams that affect
Internet users worldwide including customers of
both companies. The two Seattle-area neighbors
have worked together to identify the architects of
these schemes, and are collaborating to test
possible technical solutions that would make it
more difficult to deliver fraudulent and deceptive
e-mail to consumers.
Amazon.com and Microsoft filed a joint federal
lawsuit against a Canadian spamming operation
allegedly responsible for sending millions of
deceptive e-mail messages, including e-mail
forgeries falsely purporting to have come from
Amazon.com, Hotmail.com, and other domains (a
practice called "spoofing"). The suit, filed in
the U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleges that
Gold Disk Canada Inc., located in Kitchener,
Ontario, along with co-defendants including Barry
Head and his two sons Eric and Matthew, mounted
illegal and deceptive spamming campaigns that have
misused Microsoft's MSN Hotmail services and
forged the name of Amazon.com.
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