First popular in the world social network MySpace was able to sue the two known spammers $ 230 million.
According to the Associated Press, for such a heavy fine for sending spam sentenced Senford Wallace, known by the nickname of ' spam king ' and his co-defendant, Walter Rhines. Their illegal activities Wallace started in the last century, creating a company Promo Enterprises, send out faxes advertising. Later, ' the businessman ' moved on to the Internet, renaming his company in Cyber Promotions, and began to send junk e-mails. Then the ' spam king ' has formed a new company Smartbot. net, and began the spread of spyware.
With the growing popularity of social networking Senford Wallace moved on to their subscribers. According to the MySpace, creating new profiles on a network or stealing passwords for existing accounts, ' spam king ' with his partner sent out invitations to visit the subscribers MySpace 'interesting' site or watch the video. Those who agreed to the proposal on display advertising. In MySpace claim that a total of fraudsters sent out to users of social network 730,000 junk messages, many of which are the recipients looked as if he came from friends or relatives.
The petition said MySpace 's actions have caused spammers to additional costs associated with the processing of unwanted traffic, and also provoked a stream of complaints from users. In addition, some of the sites to which Wallace and Rhines offered to admire in its messages that contain material adverse view by minors.
As a result, according to U.S. law a federal court in Los Angeles sentenced Senforda Wallace and Walter Rhines to a fine of $ 230 million. However, it is not clear whether the will to take money from hard-core spammers - they are both on the court hearing did not appear.
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