A small internet service provider in the US has been awarded nearly $2.6m in a lawsuit it filed against a company that sent just under 25,000 spam messages over an 18-month period.

The court awarded the ISP damages of $865,340, but went on to triple the amount, to 2.596m, because, they said, the Find a Quote spammers, including defendant Edward Heckerson, had employed automatic scripts to send their messages.

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