$555,850 Generated By My Space Spam King Says FTC
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 01/26/2008
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Who says spam doesn't pay?
The alleged King of Spam... Stanford Wallace is being charged by the FTC with generating $555,850 through pornography advertising targeting My Space users according to a spreadsheet obtained by the FTC.
Some of the sites Wallace linked to included freevegasclubs-dot-com and real-vegas-sins.com.
The Setup:
Apparently Wallace set up over 11,000 phony My Space profiles that he used to spam other My Space users. The victims unwittingly downloaded spyware onto their computers that forced them to go to sites that Wallace had contracts with.
The spyware also had mouse trapping code which made it very hard for users to leave these sites.
In a story from
The Register the following was obtained...
In late 2006, Rines and his cohorts entered into a settlement that ordered them to pay $1.75m, but the court agreed to suspend all but $10,000 of the penalty in light of the defendant's sworn inability to pay.
In a separate action, a defendant affiliated with Wallace had been ordered to pay just $40,000. The parties in both cases agreed to a lengthy list of prohibitions that, among other things, prevented them from exploiting software vulnerabilities and required them to obtain consent before downloading software onto consumers' computers.
For more on this story go here
The alleged King of Spam... Stanford Wallace is being charged by the FTC with generating $555,850 through pornography advertising targeting My Space users according to a spreadsheet obtained by the FTC.
Some of the sites Wallace linked to included freevegasclubs-dot-com and real-vegas-sins.com.
The Setup:
Apparently Wallace set up over 11,000 phony My Space profiles that he used to spam other My Space users. The victims unwittingly downloaded spyware onto their computers that forced them to go to sites that Wallace had contracts with.
The spyware also had mouse trapping code which made it very hard for users to leave these sites.
In a story from
In late 2006, Rines and his cohorts entered into a settlement that ordered them to pay $1.75m, but the court agreed to suspend all but $10,000 of the penalty in light of the defendant's sworn inability to pay.
In a separate action, a defendant affiliated with Wallace had been ordered to pay just $40,000. The parties in both cases agreed to a lengthy list of prohibitions that, among other things, prevented them from exploiting software vulnerabilities and required them to obtain consent before downloading software onto consumers' computers.
For more on this story go here
