Iowa couple ordered to pay more than US$236 million for sending millions of spam messages to Internet service provider. Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok used a program called Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies to send millions of e-mails to CIS Internet Services of Clinton, Iowa, over a four-month period in 2003. The attacks cut into CIS’s bandwidth, making it harder for customers to surf the Web and ultimately costing the company a lot of business. CIS receives between 10 million and 15 million unwanted messages each day, a more manageable amount.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2123278/spammers-must-pay–236m-to-iowa-isp.html