Spammer Sanford Wallace Face Heat For Facebook Spams
October 30th, 2009 - 8:09 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
Oct. 30, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Sanford Wallace, an internet marketer had to pay the popular social networking site Facebook a sum of seven hundred and eleven million dollars, after he lost the anti-spam case filed by the social networking site. As stated by the sources, Wallace was charged for unauthenticated use of people’s accounts in Facebook and sending them phony messages and posts. Sources also stated that Wallace might have to face imprisonment for this act.
It has been stated by the sources, this is the second largest award given after a site has won an anti-spam case. Almost a year ago, this social networking site had received eight hundred and seventy three dollars after winning a case filed against Atlantis Blue Capital and its owner Adam Guerbuez. The man was accused of sending sexually explicit messages to people.
Facebook is not the only site to file an anti-spam suit against an individual. Earlier, in 2008 May, MySpace had filed such case. They had filed the case against Walter Rines and Sanford Wallace for sending junk messages to the members of the site. They had received a sum of two hundred and thirty million dollars after winning the case under CAN-SPAM (anti-spam law of the federal government). Wallace also had to pay a penalty of four million dollars, as he was accused by Federal Trade Commission for creating spywares. The record states that Wallace had been fined several times for sending spams and making spyware. This time the spammer might have to face a sentence of imprisonment for unauthenticated use of people’s account.
- Cyber criminals increasingly targeting social networks - Jan 19, 2011
- Facebook awarded $711 mn in spam damages - Oct 31, 2009
- Facebook wins $712-million in damages in spammer case - Oct 31, 2009
- Twitter accounts hacked, flooded with spam - Dec 14, 2010
- Beware of Valentine's spam, warns IT security firm - Feb 13, 2012
- A third of world's spam comes from Russian man, says FBI - Dec 01, 2010
- Russia targets 1 man & one-fifth of the world's spam reduces - Oct 29, 2010
- 22 booked for hate mails on Digvijay Singh - Sep 30, 2011
- Drastic fall in global spam e-mail levels - Jan 07, 2011
- Attack on Gawker enables spammers to take over Twitter accounts - Dec 14, 2010
- Spam emails claiming celeb deaths contain virus, spyware - Aug 25, 2010
- Chinese telecom regulators intensify crackdown on spams - Jun 13, 2009
- Southampton Varsity evolves new way to assassinate spam - May 11, 2010
- One in 100 falls for SMS scams - Nov 09, 2010
- Spam emails drop sharply to 50 bn per day since Christmas - Jan 08, 2011
Tags: anti spam law, atlantis, explicit messages, federal trade commission, imprisonment, internet marketer, junk messages, kar, meena, million dollars, myspace, oct 30, record states, sanford wallace, seventy three, social networking site, spammer, spams, three dollars, walter rines