Facebook VS Wallace, spammers beware !
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VS
Wallace
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Best known is e-mail spam: unwanted e-mail messages, mostly
commercial
Junk mail / commercial e-mail
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In some jurisdictions illegal, in otherslegal
Spammers outsource theiroperations to countries where it’s
legal
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The court awarded Facebook $711 million in damages
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Cyber Promotions is Wallace’s company
Most hated and blacklisted source of spam in the 90’s
Spamford
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It bans false and misleading marketing e-mails
AND extends to
spam messages in social networks( due to the Myspace case )
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Wallace had send spam to Facebook usersAND
hacked some accounts
Prosecution for criminal contempt of court
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It’s not about the money !
It’s about discouraging other spammers !
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The Facebook-case is monumental
BUT
The MySpace-case was even bigger
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This case set the precedent for the CAN-SPAM Act
$234 million in statutory damages was the largest anti-spam sum ever awarded at the time
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Sanford Wallace
AND
Walter Rines
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Both Wallace and Rines stole some passwords
AND
Mass messaged usershundred thousands of times
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Let’s hope spammers get the message, and internet companies keep taking spam
seriously !
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Thanks for listening, see younext time !