TechSpot (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The penalties for being a spammer are no joke these days. Sanford Wallace, often referred to as the "Spam King", is experiencing this firsthand, as he deals with a $711 million judgment against him for spamming Facebook. Now, another legendary spammer is also facing a steep penalty for his spamming ways. Alan Ralsky, called the "Godfather of Spam", will be paying for his crimes...
HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Episode #64 - October 30, 2009 (Episode Length: 24 minutes, 43 seconds) Intro How to interact on Twitter: @ karenrubin , @ mvolpe and @ PaulDunay with www.HubSpot.tv in your tweet. Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.hubspot.tv Guest: Paul Dunay Book Giveaway! Go to Facebook.com/FBMarketingForDummies ! Global Managing Director of Services and Social Marketing for Avaya and author of Facebook Marketing...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Facebook, the leading online social-networking service, was awarded 711 million U.S. dollars in damages in an anti-spam case by a U.S. judge, media reported Monday. Sanford Wallace, a self-crowned "Spam King" during his career as an internet marketer, was sued for slipping uninvited into people's accounts to send bogus marketing messages. Facebook described Sanford as "a notorious internet...
geeksugar (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Sprint has just introduced another Android handset, the Samsung Moment, which goes on sale today for $170 after mail-in rebates - Engadget Facebook spammer, Sanford Wallace, has been ordered to pay $711 million in damages to Facebook - CNN Money Texting and driving has now been banned in New York state - MobileCrunch This Greasemonkey script will help you remove the clutter from your Gmail - Lifehacker...
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Facebook has just won a legal dispute with Sanford Wallace, an internet marketer who specialises in the detested art of spamming. The site sued him after he gained access to account holders’ information without permission and began spamming them. It proved to be a costly error as he has had to pay £430 million in compensation [...]
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Facebook has announced that it has won a major payout from internet marketer Sanford Wallace, after the site sued him for accessing people's accounts without their permission and subsequently spamming them. The payout of £430 million ($711 million) is said to be the second biggest ever of its kind and eclipses the £143 million ($234 million) damages Wallace had to pay to MySpace in 2008...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Facebook says a California court has awarded the social networking website $711 million (£433m) in damages in an anti-spam case against internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In what is surprisingly not the largest amount Facebook has sued for in a spam case, the world's fourth-largest site by unique visitors last week won US$711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for unlawfully accessing user accounts and subsequently using them to spam their networks.
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In passing Some shadowy figures and a Wunder Boner!. “ NY-23 AND THE GOP Jarrett says the GOP is becoming “more and more extreme,” Ax says the election tells GOP moderates that "there's no room at the inn for them," and Plouffe calls out Fox , and slams Palin . Carville: “Ronald Reagan’s big tent just collapsed in Upstate New York.” And Boehner says there’s...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Sanford Wallace is better known as 'Spamford' or the 'Spam King' on the internet From the Telegraph: Facebook has been awarded $711 million in damages after successfully suing Sanford Wallace for sending mail and making posts without the permission of the site or its users. But just who is the so-called 'Spam King'? Sanford Wallace is better known as "Spamford" on the web. The Las Vegas-based...
BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Filed under: Internet , Scandals , Technology Who needs venture capital money when you have litigation? Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages Thursday in an anti-spam case against Sanford Wallace, an internet marketer. The popular social networking platform went after Wallace for tapping its users' accounts without their permission and sending fake posts and messages. Wallace has quite a reputation...
The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Facebook has been awarded $711 million in damages after successfully suing Sanford Wallace for sending mail and making posts without the permission of the site or its users. But just who is the so-called 'Spam King'? Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6468959/Profile-of-a-Spam-King.html
www.widyanto.tk (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Sanford Wallace: Meet The 'Spam King' Sued By Facebook: Spamford has a reputation for sending unsolicited ma.. http://bit.ly/eHpMl
Unit1 (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Facebook won $711 million in a lawsuit against a notorious spammer. Don’t cheer too hard, though. The same spampresario owes MySpace $234 million for the same thing. Sanford Wallace, the man they sued, has been spamming people for as long as the Web has existed, and before that sent junk faxes. Court documents indicate that Wallace and [...]
A Free Man, Thinking Freely (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Facebook won a $711 million judgement against spammer Sanford Wallace. Wallace and his useless counterparts ruin social networking sites like Facebook. Hopefully Twitter will pursue similar court action.
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