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28 Feb 9:27 am
... font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Facebook filed a lawsuit last week against frequent spam-defendant Sanford Wallace (Via Wendy Davis). Access a copy of the complaint [pdf] here. The complaint asserts claims under ...
fall under CAN-SPAM in the first place? This issue came up before when MySpace sued Mr. Wallace in a previous lawsuit. MySpace was able to
convince a judge that "in-network" messages are subject to CAN-SPAM. (Previous ...
3 Mar 8:07 am
Judge Fogel issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Defendants in Facebook v. Wallace. [h/t Wendy Davis] Access a copy of the order
here [pdf]. Wendy's comments: Fogel wrote in his order that the alleged spam enterprise, which began in November, has become harder for Facebook to contain. "While Facebook has been
reasonably successful in combating this scheme, the expanding scope of the operation has made it increasingly difficult to neutralize defendants' activities," Fogel wrote. I'm ...
6 Nov 8:47 am
A California district judge recently ordered infamous spammer Sanford Wallace to pay $711 million in
damages to Facebook for his extensive spamming activity on the site. Wallace is bankrupt, so the price tag may not be very tangible to him, ...
10 year prison term for the second violation of §2701. So while the CAN-SPAM litigation went about as far in punishing Wallace as possible
(although Facebook originally asked for over $7 billion in damages) the illusory damages award could be supplemented by ...
14 May, 2008 9:12 am
... 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. ... he knows of have been in the tens of millions of dollars. There was no telephone listing for Wallace in the Las Vegas area, to which he moved in 2004 to pursue night club promotion ... attorneys fees. MySpace said it was entitled to another $3 million
from Rines and Wallace under a different section of CAN-SPAM. Collins also issued injunctions barring ...
29 May, 2008 3:14 pm
... -AGR (C.D. Cal. May 12, 2008) entered a default judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines
for violations of the CAN-SPAM Act and ordered the defendants ... MySpace's security measures designed to prevent such actions. MySpace further asserted that Wallace and Rines sent nearly 400,000 commercial messages and posted 890,000 ... The phony MySpace page then solicited MySpace users' account credentials
which defendants Wallace and Rines used to hijack user profiles and send messages. The court found ...
22 May, 2008 2:59 am
A U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles has ruled that "spam king" Sanford Wallace and his accomplice
Walter Rines are liable to pay MySpace $230 million in damages. This is significant both for the verdict's size, and because the spam happened entirely within MySpace rather than
through traditional ISP based email. (more…) ShareThis
1 Nov 10:35 pm
... N.D. Cal. judge rejects proposed settlement in class action involving TD Ameritrade data breach. Online Communities: From Wired: "The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of
Scientology". Very interesting article on the dynamics of the ongoing battle between 4chan and Scientology. Sanford Wallace: Word to the Wise: "While I hate to actually say 'Sanford Wallace
changed my life,' it's not that far from the truth ...
4 May, 2008 5:18 pm
MySpace has obtained a default judgment against "spam king" Sanford Wallace. Wallace had failed to respond to written discovery or sit for a deposition. "'It is...a defendant's responsibility to respond to discovery, obey court orders,
and avoid dilatory tactics," the court wrote in its order. "Taking all of the above factors into account, a default is appropriate. The court finds that Wallace's noncompliance is due to willfulness, fault, or bad faith...Wallace has had every opportunity to ...
29 Oct 10:12 pm
A federal judge awarded $711 million in damages against notorious "Spam King" Sanford Wallace for
tricking Facebook Inc. users into divulging their login information to sites controlled by him and his co-defendants. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel's default ... year with a $230
million default judgment for similar activities directed at MySpace. It's highly unlikely that Wallace or his co-defendants have the ability to
pay the award, but Facebook and MySpace are trying to put ...
3 Nov 2:08 pm
Facebook, the social networking website has won an award of $711 million in damages. The damages awarded from Sanford Wallace who is a prolific spammer and social network scammer, reports state. The man was banned from accessing Facebook as well, as punishment for bombarding
Facebook users with spam. The lawsuit, filed by Facebook in early 2009, names Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw, all accused of
accessing accounts of users without permission to do so and sending ...
29 Mar, 2007 1:49 pm
... , a site that provides ratings and related information on hospitals, nursing homes, mammography centers, fertility clinics and doctors. Read more here (from Media Post). MySpace has
sued Sanford Wallace, who became known as the King of Spam in the 1990s, for setting up dummy
profiles to direct MySpace users to websites such as Real-vegas-sins.com. Wallace created 11,000 fake profiles using automated software
programs in violation of MySpace's terms of use ...
26 Jan, 2008 5:10 am
Anybody who says crime doesn't pay obviously hasn't talked to Sanford Wallace. In just six months'
time, the prolific purveyor of spam and spyware engineered a scam on MySpace that netted at least $555,850, according to court documents. The brazen scheme used a combination of malware
and social engineering to push MySpace users onto porn- and gambling-related websites under Wallace's control. Read the article: The Register
28 Apr, 2008 2:58 pm
MySpace has won a legal judgment against Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king, after he failed
numerous times to turn over documents or even to show up for court. In March of last year, MySpace filed suit alleging that Wallace launched a
phishing scam in October 2006 to fraudulently access MySpace profiles. Read the article: CNET News.com
11 Apr 1:53 pm
... blog is enjoined. * We now know that Facebook settled with ConnectU for $65M. However, ConnectU might get a little more cash after this information was inadvertently disclosed by
its former counsel, Quinn Emanuel, in a marketing brochure. * Facebook gets TRO against Wallace. * Some people gave up Facebook for Lent. *
Reuters writes up a shocking study: many teens on MySpace post things they might regret. * State v. Hause, 2009 WL 295404 (Ohio App. Ct. Feb. 9, 2009). Facebook photos help convict ...
17 Jun 1:12 am
... it does little to actually prevent your inbox from getting stuffed. But on Friday, a Perkins Coie lawyer representing Facebook got the "spam king" himself, Sanford Wallace, to show up in a California federal court. What did the trick? The threat of criminal charges
against Wallace. Searched Vehicle's Passenger Can't Assert Driver's 'Miranda' Rights New Jersey Law Journal A passenger in a car searched for
drugs ...
31 Oct 3:32 pm
... Area bankruptcy lawyer can be a key ally when facing both financial and legal problems. Last February California company Facebook sued Sanford Wallace, the self-described "Spam King", claiming he had fraudulently gained access to millions of user
accounts on the social networking site. Wallace responded in June by declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy. At the time of the filing the tech news
site CNET.com reported that Facebook's lawyers believed ...
4 May, 2006 4:01 pm
Sanford Wallace, former spammer and now spyware installer with his company Smartbot.Net, today was
ordered by a New Hampshire district court to pay restitution to consumers in the amount of four million dollars. Co-defendants OptinTrade and Jared Lansky were required to pay $227,000
in restitution. The complaint alleges that the Defendants installed spyware on user's computers without consent in order to sell their anti-spyware products. For more information, here
is a link to an article ...
27 Mar, 2007 8:05 am
News Corporation's interactive media company MySpace said it has filed a lawsuit against spammer Sanford Wallace in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. MySpace said it is alleging violations of state and federal laws, including the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and
California's anti-spam and anti-phishing statutes. Read the article: Forbes
30 Apr, 2007 2:11 am
... on MySpace, many users have taken this freedom too far. Be it from fake profiles or tidal waves of unsolicited messages the results are the same: degradation of the community and
poor user experience. The action action against "Spam King" Sanford Wallace is well known, but here
are some other cases that went largely unnoticed in '06 and '07 (some resolved very recently) ... Read the rest here (including copies of documents relating to the cases).
14 May, 2008 3:43 am
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever. A federal judge in
Los Angeles ruled against a notorious "Spam King," Sanford Wallace, and his partner, Walter Rines,
after the two failed to show up at a court hearing, MySpace said. Read the article: ABC News
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