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Tuesday, May 28, 2002 From an Email I Got Today In the news... John Zuccarini of Pennsylvania is one of those online citizens who pollute the digital air. After buying up over 5,500 addresses of misspellings of popular sites, he sold gambling and porno ads in them. Some even played toward kids by using close misspellings of the Cartoon Network (15 variations) and Britney Spears (41 variations). His sites were created using "mousetrappings" so that once you clicked on it, several popups would come up with ads for his porno and gambling affiliates. You can't get away from it because as soon as you close one down another is created. Some have as many as 32 windows popping up one right after the other. He has been making close to one million US dollars a year from his pop up practices. The Federal Trade Commission checked Mr. Zuccarini's file and found that he had been sued 63 times in the last two years, lost 53 cases and had to return nearly 200 domain names to the rightful owner of the domain copyright. The good news is that yesterday he was slapped with a two million dollar fine! ^ Top | 5:07 PM | | | 
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