FreeiPods.com Sued For Email Fraud

Gratis Internet, the company behind FreeiPods.com, was sued by New York’s attorney general on Thursday for selling e-mail addresses in what’s been described as “the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever.”

The AP reports:

“Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused Gratis Internet of selling personal information obtained from millions of consumers despite a promise of confidentiality.

The consumers thought they were simply registering to see a Web site offering free iPod music players or DVD movies and video games, Spitzer spokesman Brad Maione said. On sign-up pages, Gratis promised it “does not … sell/rent e-mails.”

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Instead of confidentiality, Spitzer said, Gratis sold access to their e-mail information to three independent e-mail marketers, and hundreds of millions of e-mail solicitations followed.

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