Scott Richter and his company OptInRealBig.com agreed to pay a $40,000 fine and $10,000 towards the investigative cost in a settlement reached with New York’s Attorney General.
In December, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer announced that he would seek millions of dollars in damages and seeked to put the company in bankruptcy.
From the Attorney General’s press release:
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced the settlement of a lawsuit against email marketer Scott Richter and his company, OptInRealBig.com, LLC. The suit alleged that unsolicited emails, or spam, sent on defendants’ behalf contained falsified headers, falsified routing information, and deceptive subject lines, and were illegally routed through a worldwide network of more than 500 vulnerable computers.
