MySpace Sues Former ‘Spam King’ Sanford Wallace
Former self-proclaimed spam king Sanford Wallace is back in the news, this time for being sued by MySpace.
The popular networking site announced today it has filed suit against Wallace, alleging that beginning in October, he implemented a phishing scheme to falsely gain access to people’s profiles and spammed thousands of MySpace members in attempts to drive them to his Web sites.
The suit, filed Friday in federal district court in Los Angeles, alleges Wallace violated the federal Can-Spam Act and California’s anti-spam and anti-phishing statutes. MySpace is seeking unspecified monetary damages
Wallace last made headlines in November when a New Hampshire federal district court ordered him to pay more than $4 million he allegedly obtained by downloading spyware onto people’s computers without them knowing and duping them into buying purported anti-spyware products.
Wallace was unsolicited bulk e-mail’s poster child in the mid- to late nineties when the self-proclaimed spam king was the chief executive of Cyber Promotions. At its peak, some experts estimated Cyber Promotions was responsible for as much as a third of spam on the Internet.
