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High Noon: Suing spammers becomes full time job

Cans of Spam line the shelves at a store in Berlin, Vt. Sales of Spam are rising as consumers turn more to lunch meats and lower-cost foods as a way of stretching their already stretched food budgets. Associated Press photos (Associated Press photos / The Spokesman-Review)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
Cans of Spam line the shelves at a store in Berlin, Vt. Sales of Spam are rising as consumers turn more to lunch meats and lower-cost foods as a way of stretching their already stretched food budgets. Associated Press photos (Associated Press photos / The Spokesman-Review)
Cans of Spam line the shelves at a store in Berlin, Vt. Sales of Spam are rising as consumers turn more to lunch meats and lower-cost foods as a way of stretching their already stretched food budgets. Associated Press photos (Associated Press photos / The Spokesman-Review)

SAN FRANCISCO – Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.

Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to enlarge his breasts.

Enraged, he launched a Web site called Danhatesspam.com, quit a career in marketing to go to law school and is making a decent living suing companies who flood his e-mail inboxes with offers of cheap drugs, free sex and unbelievable vacations. Read more.

If you could quit your day job and launch a new career, what would it be?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog