Verizon Communications has scored a legal victory against a major provider of spam, or unsolicited and unwanted bulk e-mail, Additional Benefits LLC, a Michigan based company. The federal court issued its ruling and obtained an agreement that Alan Ralsky's Additional Benefits Company will cease its unwanted e-mail solicitations of Verizon customers in 40 states for online casinos, diet pills, Viagra, and credit repair organizations, among other types of advertising. The settlement comes after Verizon filed in federal court in Virginia claiming that its online customers were inundated by millions of e-mail solicitations from companies that work with Ralsky, clogging Verizon's mail servers and its customers' inboxes with unwanted and annoying advertisements.