MySpace Wins $230mill. Anti-Spam Suit

[Gargs]

Sanford Wallace: schmuck who started it all

What is thought to be the largest anit-spam settlement to date, MySpace won a $230mill. lawsuit against a spamming company. Under the CAN-SPAM federal law, there's a $100 fine for each spam infraction. This fine is tripled if conducted "willfully and knowingly."

From wired.com

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A notorious "Spam King" and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ever.

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U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins in Los Angeles ruled in MySpace's favor Monday after Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines failed to show up for a court hearing.

Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s. He left that company, Cyber Promotions, following lawsuits from leading Internet service providers such as Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, only to re-emerge in a spyware case that led to a $4 million federal judgment against him in 2006.

Link to wired.com article

It's nice to see these stains of the digital age getting their butt's handed to them, but good luck collecting the money.

[VincentVega]

what a tool.

stupid tool

[FuzzyLogik]

here's the only kinda spam that I like:

[FrenchArbitor]

With that kind of history, he must be making money off of this to continue. There needs to be some serious education done to prevent scammers like this from profitting off the stupid. Of course there's the train of thought that if you're stupid enough to fall for it, you deserve what you get... but still.

[DominiKing]

At least he got caught and is getting sh!t for it. He's a failure at life.

[Bojingles]

I hope he gets spam in his inbox everyday and spam in his mail and spam on his phone and spam on his cell and spam in his meals.

[CoffeeShark]

Needs criminal penalties, civil are BS