Download - Facebook VS Wallace, spammers beware !
VS
Wallace
Best known is e-mail spam: unwanted e-mail messages, mostly
commercial
Junk mail / commercial e-mail
In some jurisdictions illegal, in otherslegal
Spammers outsource theiroperations to countries where it’s
legal
The court awarded Facebook $711 million in damages
Cyber Promotions is Wallace’s company
Most hated and blacklisted source of spam in the 90’s
Spamford
It bans false and misleading marketing e-mails
AND extends to
spam messages in social networks( due to the Myspace case )
Wallace had send spam to Facebook usersAND
hacked some accounts
Prosecution for criminal contempt of court
It’s not about the money !
It’s about discouraging other spammers !
The Facebook-case is monumental
BUT
The MySpace-case was even bigger
This case set the precedent for the CAN-SPAM Act
$234 million in statutory damages was the largest anti-spam sum ever awarded at the time
Sanford Wallace
AND
Walter Rines
Both Wallace and Rines stole some passwords
AND
Mass messaged usershundred thousands of times
Let’s hope spammers get the message, and internet companies keep taking spam
seriously !
Thanks for listening, see younext time !