LOS ANGELES — Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users' accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages. The company said on its blog that in addition to the damage award, the San Jose, Calif., court referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's office for prosecution for criminal contempt of court – meaning he could face jail time.
Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.
In May 2008, the online hangout MySpace won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members when a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled against Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, in another case brought under the federal anti-spam law known as CAN- SPAM. In 2006, Wallace was fined $4 million after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of running an operation that infected computers with software that caused flurries of pop-up ads, known as "spyware."
In message <ce95fccf-6bb1-49bb-ac24-639d590b7...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> InactiveX666 <inactivex...@hotmail.com> was claimed to have wrote:
>LOS ANGELES — Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded >the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam >case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
That and about $5 should get them a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
While it's nice that they won, they won't recoup their legal expenses.
In article <ce95fccf-6bb1-49bb-ac24-639d590b7...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
InactiveX666 <inactivex...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a > company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the > 1990s.
Did they writhe about his junk faxing in the past?
On Oct 30, 2:09 pm, stinky <stee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article > <ce95fccf-6bb1-49bb-ac24-639d590b7...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> InactiveX666 <inactivex...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a > > company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the > > 1990s.
> Did they writhe about his junk faxing in the past?
the guy is an f****** amazing hacker. admire from him. hes better than chinnese hackers man
<rohankohl...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Oct 30, 2:09 pm, stinky <stee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In article >> <ce95fccf-6bb1-49bb-ac24-639d590b7...@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>> InactiveX666 <inactivex...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> > Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a >> > company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the >> > 1990s.
>> Did they writhe about his junk faxing in the past?
>the guy is an f****** amazing hacker. admire from him. hes better than >chinnese hackers man
Well, heck, bud - let's nominate him for a freaking Nobel Prize, shall we?
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