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'Reformed' spammer sued yet again...
(old news - 12:30PM Tuesday Mar 27 2007)
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Sanford Wallace pioneered junk faxing and spam in the 1990s. A few years back he "reformed" himself by getting out of the spam business, and into the spyware business, where he was subsequently busted by the FTC for pushing spyware removal software that actually installed spyware. Now Wallace has gone back to his roots. He is being sued by Myspace for phishing and spamming MySpace users in violation of the Can Spam Act and California law.

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March 27th, @12:33PM

Ha ha ha

It's about time they got this idiot ..... again.

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said by AnonProxy See Profile :

It's about time they got this idiot ..... again.
Each time he's been "got", it's only been to the tune of a fraction of the amount of money that he made from these activities. I think you can count on him continuing unless and until they toss his ass in jail. Fraud is still jailable, right?

newview
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Once a spammer . . . always a spammer


This SOB NEEDS to go to jail.

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Re: Once a spammer . . . always a spammer

said by newview See Profile :

This SOB NEEDS to take a dirtnap.
Fixed

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Re: Once a spammer . . . always a spammer

I've got a #12 nap inducer...

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said by newview See Profile :

This SOB NEEDS to go to jail.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Jail time, combined with a frontal lobotomy. Oh yeah yeah yeah, Spam King turnin' into a vegetable, oh yeah awesome.
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said by newview See Profile :

This SOB NEEDS to go to jail.
I 2nd that. Keep taking him to court until he is broke and in prison.
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the court should let happen what happened in that AOL case where AOL got the spammer's property and Ebayed it.
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Send him to the Russians!

Send this guy to the Ruskies, they usually shoot spammers, like they did a while ago that broadbandreports had an article on. Maybe instead of shooting him they can expose him to serious amounts of polunium 210!

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What does it mean to me?

Does this mean "S*a*r*a*h XOXO" will stop messaging me and trying to add me as her friend?

I'm really tired of Spambots who say they're in love with me... reminds me of highschool.
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Re: What does it mean to me?

High school? I thought My Space was for high schoolers.

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said by PolarBear See Profile :

Does this mean "S*a*r*a*h XOXO" will stop messaging me
Sorry... I just really like you
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"Spamford" is still around???

So THAT's what he's doing now...

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Re: "Spamford" is still around???

Junk faxing and spambots beat having a real job any day.
houselog442

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Re: "Spamford" is still around???

Sad thing is the spam message is the same damn message! You would think they would put a different message on there to fool you that they are not spam!

The only good spammer is a dead one!

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Posted two hours ago on in this forum !

I might what to add that I posted this topic about two hours ago in another forum.
»MySpace Brings Spam LawSuit against Sanford Wallace
Oh well,I just thought that it was interesting how it took so long before anyone noticed this news topic.

I would think that Wallace has enough money to defend himself in any lawsuit. With the money he has, he could potentially hire the best civil attorney in the United states.

Then again, I would love to see his sorry a$$ spend many years in a federal prison.
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Re: Posted two hours ago on in this forum !

I sent this in as a news item this morning about 5:30am.


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Re: Posted two hours ago on in this forum !

said by newview See Profile :

I sent this in as a news item this morning about 5:30am.


DOH! you got me beat, but that's okay since this site is about sharing informtion. I guess Google news is slow to send information to my inbox because I didn't get it until late this morning.
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March 27th, @03:01PM

Re: Posted two hours ago on in this forum !


This is funny !
Wallace, the self-proclaimed "King of Spam," has been previously sued (either directly or through entities that he owned or controlled) by America Online, Concentric Network Corp., CompuServe, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2006, Wallace was forced to pay more than $4 million in a lawsuit brought by the FTC for the actions of Smartbot.net.

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Re: Posted two hours ago on in this forum !

That cop is sexy.

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You forget, MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch. I can see a lot more lawsuits considering others are running a ton of scams on there.

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I was wondering...

when we would hear from him again. lol!

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Don't change.
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said by MoeDumb See Profile :

Don't change.
Tell me about it. I didn't buy his claims from roughly a decade ago that he was out of the spam business for good.

At least now I know who's behind the Myspace spam I've been getting. I should have known.

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said by MoeDumb See Profile :

Don't change.
Once a scumbag spammer, always a scumbag spammer. Rule #1
comes to mind here.
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Civil punishment won't solve the problem

If they win a civil judgement against him, he will always have money to cover it or use lawyers to appeal and draw it out as long as possible.

There are 3 solutions:

1) Pile up so many lawsuits that he can not financially defend himself and he goes into bankruptcy. Not perfect, but the odds are he'll receive a criminal punishment somewhere along the way with time behind bars.

2) Pass laws that put companies out of business that pay entities that promote rogue marketing tactics. When the money dries up, it is pointless for these scum to continue.

3) Criminally punish all spammers. Sentence to 1 day in a Federal "pound me in the a$$" prison for every destination email address on their mailing lists. I am sure there are companies like AOL and Yahoo who could easily present logs showing how many of their accounts were hit by his garbage. Even with good behavior (unlikely when your cellmate is your girlfriend) they would never see the light of day again.
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For Shame!!

You folks aren't being fair! This is a hurt and struggling businessman who embraced technology with hope in his heart and a twinkle in his eye! He had no greater ambition than to make the world a better place for the people in his life who tried out his wonderful products! Quite frankly I expected more compassion from the "nice people" here at BBR!

Whoops, my bad. It's not April 1st yet...
scottlong

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he is even on Wikipedia

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Wallace

he should be whiped beaten killed drawn and quarted cremated then his ashes flushed down a toilet
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