I have been getting a a large number of mailer-daemon emails beacuse a spammer is using my domain name to spam and they bounce back to me. I've tried to WHOIS and dig but I haven't been able to track him down. IANAL but I have a fairly good understanding of the law. Let's assume I can eventually track him down. All of these emails are trying to get people to go to http://www.gtspecalzdgree.com/, a site for complete morons to get "degrees" (Words cannot express the amount of idiocy it would take to actually buy one of those). So assuming I can track him down and he's living in the States, what do you think my chances are of winning?
I feel that my best chances are suing him for a privacy tort called appropriation for using my domain name which is my real name. There would be a case for some compensatory damages and I think a jury would award a significant amount of punative damages.
Any ideas? I know it might seem quixotic to sue a spammer, but if it's possibleI want to do it.
I feel that my best chances are suing him for a privacy tort called appropriation for using my domain name which is my real name. There would be a case for some compensatory damages and I think a jury would award a significant amount of punative damages.
Any ideas? I know it might seem quixotic to sue a spammer, but if it's possibleI want to do it.
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