Sanford Wallace

...to pursue damages against other spammers." In May 2008, MySpace won a $230 million (GBP139 million) judgment against Mr Wallace and his partner Walter Rines over junk messages sent to its users. The latest judgment is believed to represent...

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...partners early this year. In court paperwork, Facebook described Sanford as "a notorious Internet scam artist who has been involved in various illegal spamming and malware activities since the mid-1990s." MySpace last year won a 230...

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...spammers." Facebook sued Sanford and two others in February alleging they used phishing sites or other means to fraudulently gain access to Facebook accounts and used them to distribute phishing spam throughout the network. A year ago,...

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...Wallace and accused collaborators for spreading porn and gambling spam at the News Corp-owned online social networking service. Wallace has reportedly promoted himself as an original "Spam King" during his career as an internet marketer.

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In the past 18 months both MySpace and Facebook have won spam cases - including an $873m fine against a Canadian, Adam Guerbuez, and a total of more than $1bn against Sanford Wallace, who in the 1990s dubbed himself the "spam king". The...

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Today Facebook reported they've been awarded $711 million in damages by a San Jose, CA court against Sanford Wallace, the notorious "Spam King" that MySpace also successfully went after last year to the tune of a $234 million judgment.

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...against these criminals." In addition to the damages, Wallace was also banned from accessing Facebook and slapped with a criminal contempt of court charge, which means he now faces possible jail time. Wallace was previously fined $230...

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