AOL v. Squeaky Clean Marketing Press Release - 3/5/98

AOL also announced that it had successfully concluded its suit (filed on December 18, 1997) against spammers Squeaky Clean Marketing and Cyber Services, both based in Dallas, Georgia. Both companies had been sending large quantities of junk e-mail to AOL members, promoting products ranging from baldness cures to get-rich-quick schemes, as well as do it yourself spamming software to enable other users to send their own junk e-mail. The volume of e-mail being sent by Squeaky Clean and Cyber Service resulted in thousands of AOL member complaints. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, AOL said that the spammers had agreed to an injunction that will bar them from ever sending e-mail to AOL members again, as well as the payment of an undisclosed sum of damages.