In addition to financial damages, Sanford Wallace, among the first to be crowned “Spam King,” may face jail time for ripping off millions of FaceBook users.
Thomas Claburn of InformationWeek follows this story that leads us all to stand up and cheer. For me, I think I would rather see him in jail — he’ll never pay what he owes.
Facebook has won yet another massive judgment against a spammer who already owes $234 million to MySpace. A California federal judge on Thursday granted Facebook’s request for a default judgment against Sanford Wallace, who is known to have been involved with spamming since the mid-1990s and with junk faxing before that.
Court documents indicate that Wallace and an associate who was later dropped from the case spammed Facebook users with phishing messages. Those who clicked on the links and submitted login information to phishing sites allowed Wallace and his associate to then spam the phishing victim’s friends, in turn generating more potential phishing victims. Facebook claims that Wallace also received payment for redirecting some spam recipients to Web sites that pay for referrals.
Full story found in informationweek.com (spam version) Print version
Don’t think it’s over
The threat is still very real, and is happening even today! Wallace sold names and techniques to other cyber crime rings, so expect the practice to continue.
SEE: Facebook Malware Again for the latest attacks on Facebook users.
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