Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit in federal court against Neela Pundit and Charles Rossop for sending 5 million spam text messages to mobile phones, reported The Associated Press.
The SMS read "We have someone interested in buying or renting your Time Share." It then alerts consumers to visit two websites that were connected to Pundit and Rossop.
Both Cingular Wireless and the attorney general’s office investigated 200 consumer complaints about the messages. It’s a violation of federal law to send spam to cell phones, and breaking that law carries a penalty of $1,500 for each unsolicited text message sent.
Cingular said that more than 25,000 of the messages hit the company’s network between Oct. 21 and Nov. 6, 2006.
According to the State Journal Register, Punit denied sending spam.
