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6 commentsFriday, February 27, 2009

Spam King Back in News Thanks to Facebook

Getting Sued Yet Again

Spam King - Sanford WallaceRemember Sanford Wallace? A little less than a year ago, MySpace won a lawsuit against him after filing it about a year earlier based on a phishing scheme carried out six months before that. He created profiles, groups, and forums on  MySpace to lead users to his sites.

Now he is back in the news getting sued by MySpace rival Facebook. Inside Facebook reports:

Three months after being awarded $873 million in a lawsuit against Atlantis Blue Capital for violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Facebook earlier this week filed a federal complaint against “Spam King” Sanford Wallace in San Jose District Court. Las Vegas night club manager Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw are also named as defendants in the suit...

Arzoomanian (or someone using his identity) seems to have appeared on the spamming scene more recently. In November 2008, a careful Facebook user blogged about a password harvesting scam he discovered by someone using domains registered to Arzoomanian’s name.

Wallace has quite the track record of lawsuits. besides MySpace, he has been sued by AOL, Concentric Network, CompuServe, and even the Federal Trade Commission, for which he paid $4 million. He has earned the nick name "spam king."

Speaking of spam lawsuits involving the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC sued Impulse Media Group for spam that was sent via its affiliates. The case went to jury and found that Impulse Media should not be held liable. This case is discussed by a couple of lawyers in this interesting video from the SMX West show:


About the author:
Chris Crum has been a part of the WebProNews team and the iEntry Network of B2B Publications since 2003. Twitter: @CCrum237

This guy is strange

Yes i read about this story with myspace

This is really strange how he pay

Spam

I sure hope that someone will start taking spam more seriously. It is really one of the major problems on the internet today, and I wish that someone had found a way to eliminate spam completely.

Maybe someone could find a way to always know who the sender of any message really is?

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