MySpace Wins Against Spamford Wallace Who Has Disappeared (Once Again)
from the old-habits-die-hard dept
Remember Sanford "Spamford" Wallace? Back in the 90s, he was the face of the proud spammer. He was quoted widely and proclaimed himself the spam king (which he insisted was legal). That was great until the law caught up to him and he claimed he reformed. For a little while he went into the nightclub business, which didn't work out. So, he jumped on the next big thing: spyware. A $4 million fine later, and he apparently moved on to spamming MySpace, setting up 11,000 fake profiles that redirected visitors to various marketing websites.
MySpace sued him for this and a judge has ruled in the company's favor, in large part because Wallace pretty much ignored the case. At first he procrastinated and gave excuses, and then just stopped responding altogether. This isn't the first time this has happened, either. With that whole spyware case a few years back, even Wallace's lawyer admitted that Wallace had disappeared entirely. Sense a pattern? Wallace seems to jump on any sort of scheming online marketing scam, and when the law finally catches up to him, he runs and hides. Somehow, I doubt that MySpace will collect on any money the court awards it.
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good. by koresho on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 4:52am
I don't much like Myspace, but any spammer that gets shut down, even temporarily, is good news to me...
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by Anonymous Coward on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 5:04am
Next time they catch him, they should SHOOT him! Then he can disappear FOREVER!
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wow by direct effect on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 6:58am
i dind even know about this...
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And they let him? by Mike F.M on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 7:16am
You would have thought that after his last escape, and the fact that he seems to jump from scam to scam, that they might keep just a bit of a better eye on him.
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Mr Wallace by Richard Head on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 7:24am
Fucking myspace! Typical of a large organisation ganging up on the little guy!
wankers
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Re: Mr Wallace by James on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 7:38am
Little guy......pffft....whatever, they should burn him at the stake, we could use telemarketers as kindling, or hmm... public stoning?
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Alternative collection by ECA on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 7:43am
IF you cant find the SPAMMER..
Ever wonder HOw he got permission to ADVERT those sites??
Isnt it the responsibility of the Person/company BEING adverted, to make sure its LEGAL??
Collect for the companies...then let the COMPANIES collect from Wallace. Collection and credit corps are NOT easy to run away from.
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Re: Re: Mr Wallace by JS Beckerist on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 8:41am
...public stoning?
Way ahead of you man ;)
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Useless Schmuck by Todd on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 9:09am
Yep. Yet another nimrod who has no talent other than finding ways to make money by doing nothing except annoying the hell outa of everyone else. It is not a new idea by anymeans. But I just can not stand butt heads like this who have never picked up a hammer or changed a car tire in their life. But at the same time must find themselves to above all others.
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Re: Re: Re: Mr Wallace by dude on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 10:29am
stoned.....huh?
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Re: Re: Mr Wallace by Anonymous Coward on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 10:40am
yes, that would be StoneWalling!
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by Anonymous Coward on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 10:45am
What's MySpace?
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by Hyrulio on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 11:18am
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
what kind of emo loner has 11,000 myspace acounts? i don't even have one!
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Re: by Hyrulio on Apr 30th, 2008 @ 11:20am
just remembered, i have one, but it's only there because one of my friends wanted me to see some pictures on her account
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Going after the companies advertised by John on May 1st, 2008 @ 4:20pm
Going after the companies advertised in the spam adverts is certainly an option, but it will probably be useless. Most companies will have the usual "plausible deniability" claim of "We can't keep track of all of our advertising affiliates." or "That was one bad apple. We can't be responsible for him."
Maybe we need to change the laws so these companies ARE held responsible for every affiliate and advertising that they hire. If their products are spamvertised on MySpace, they should be held accountable.
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