MySpace Wins Largest Anti-Spam Award

Posted on May 24, 2008
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It probably won't do much to ease the steady flow of junk e-mail to our inbox, but MySpace has just laid claim to the largest ever judgment against spammers.

After two of the Internet's most prominent spam defendants, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, failed to show up in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, a judge awarded a default judgment of $234 million. Wallace, known to some as the "Spam King," and his cohort were accused of sending more than 730,000 messages to MySpace members. The News Corp.-owned social network brought suit under the federal anti-spam law known as CAN-SPAM. MySpace described the victory as a "landmark."

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