In what is believed to be the first legal action against spamming on mobile phones in Japan, the Yokohama District Court has issued an injunction against a firm that is allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to customers of NTT DoCoMo Inc.
The court issued the order Monday.
According to NTT DoCoMo officials, Global Network, based in Nishi Ward, Yokohama, has been e-mailing advertisements to DoCoMo customers by randomly generating eight-digit numbers and attaching them to the suffix @docomo.ne.jp, the root of all DoCoMo e-mail addresses.