facebook vs wallace, spammers beware !

VS

Wallace

Best known is e-mail spam: unwanted e-mail messages, mostly

commercial

Junk mail / commercial e-mail

In some jurisdictions illegal, in otherslegal

Spammers outsource theiroperations to countries where it’s

legal

The court awarded Facebook $711 million in damages

Cyber Promotions is Wallace’s company

Most hated and blacklisted source of spam in the 90’s

Spamford

It bans false and misleading marketing e-mails

AND extends to

spam messages in social networks( due to the Myspace case )

Wallace had send spam to Facebook usersAND

hacked some accounts

Prosecution for criminal contempt of court

It’s not about the money !

It’s about discouraging other spammers !

The Facebook-case is monumental

BUT

The MySpace-case was even bigger

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

Sanford Wallace

AND

Walter Rines

Both Wallace and Rines stole some passwords

AND

Mass messaged usershundred thousands of times

Let’s hope spammers get the message, and internet companies keep taking spam

seriously !

Thanks for listening, see younext time !