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Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its principal Scott Richter. The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines. In its latest victory, MySpace won an arbitration hearing where it was awarded $4.8 million [...]
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Can you shut down spam with court orders? No, you can't. But that isn't stopping MySpace from trying. Last month the company won a $235 million verdict against cyberscourges Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines; today it has won a $6 million arbitration award against Scott Richter and his company Media Breakaway. MySpace says Richter's company sent MySpace members unsolicited advertising, via accounts...
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Microweb News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Former spammer Sanford Wallace stopped its activities already in 1998, but the lawsuit against its business Smartbot. neat, pace in 2004 was tightened. Wallace spread spyware that for it saw to that the drawer of the cd-skim player open went, after which a report on the [...]
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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Source: Lexology, June 5, 2008. MySpace wins $230 million award against “Spam King” Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP MySpace, the popular online social network, has won a $230 million award against Sanford Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines.
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Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A district court judge fined two notorious spammers $230 million for flooding MySpace email accounts with unwanted advertisements for porn and other activities. Judge Audrey Collins imposed the record fine under the terms of the CAN-SPAM Act against Sanford Wallace...
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Gadgetell (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Section: Communications , Email / IM , Computers , Security , Web , Web 2.0 , Websites According to a report on Information Week, infamous “Spam King” Sanford Wallace, and his phishing partner Walter Rines were slammed with a whopping $225 million judgment by a U.S. District Court on Monday. “MySpace has zero tolerance for those who attempt to act illegally on our site,” said Hemanshu Nigam, chief...
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TechNewsWorld (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
A federal court has awarded MySpace nearly $230 million in its suit against Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines -- aka the "Spam King." The judgment -- especially given the size of the award -- represents a decided victory for e-commerce sites in their costly battle against spam. This is the largest award since the enactment of the CAN-SPAM Act in 2003.
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
MySpace this week won a ruling against Samford Wallace and Walter Rines, reinforcing the fact that there’s no love lost between big web sites and spammers. But it's also a sign of an escalation of the war on spam. Spammers are finding virgin territory in emerging messaging tools, including SMS and social networks. Ferris Research projects [...]
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Best New Technology (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
MySpace has won what is thought to be the biggest payout ever made in an anti-spam lawsuit. The ruling in favor of MySpace against spammer Sanford Wallace a.k.a “Spamford” and Walter Rines came with an award of US$234 million. The lawsuit was set in motion after the spamming duo used MySpace accounts to lure other members to their pages and then either attempt to sell them something or gain income...
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TechDigest (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
MySpace has "won" around £120m from two spammers who used their network to send junk mail to members, but it has little chance of seeing the cash. It's no surprise that Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines (who apparently are real people) failed to turn up in court -- it's likely no-one even knows where they live...
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The Wichita Business Journal (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
MySpace has been awarded about $230 million in its suit against "Spam King" Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines, according to media reports. (NWS)
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Source: [b]Daily Telegraph[/b] In what is believed to be the largest ever anti-spam award, a federal judge in Los Angeles found against Sanford Wallace, and his business partner, Walter Rines, after the two failed to attend a court hearing, said MySpace. The court heard the pair made money on a...
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ZD Net (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...
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JournalHome.com Free Blog Host (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Smooth wombat writes "Apparently some people just don't take the hint. The latest story in the Sanford Wallace spamming saga is a $230 million verdict against Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, when they failed to show up in court. Wallace and Rines were accused by MySpace of creating their own business and taking over other economics through phishing scams, and then using those money management...
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Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace has won a $234 million anti-spam judgment against "Spam King" Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, who were found guilty after not showing up in court to defend against charges they violated the 2003 Can-Spam Act, the Associated Press reported. read more
