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MySpace Files Law Suit Against 'Spam King'

Slimy   on 22 January 2007 - 16:52 · 10 comments & 3221 views

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MySpace.com, which is owned by News Corp., has filed a lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles against the self-proclaimed "Spam King" for allegedly blasting the portal with spam between July and December 2006. The suit alleges Richter obtained a list of compromised accounts or used phishing to harvest log-ins and passwords. MySpace is a frequent target for spammers because of the easiness of mass sending "bulletins" from a single account.

MySpace seeks a permanent injunction to bar Scott Richter, who runs Optinrealbig.com (e-mail marketing company in Westminster, Colorado), and his affiliates from using the popular social networking site. MySpace also accused Richter of not complying with the federal CAN-SPAM act (which he agreed to obey after previous suits) and California's antispam law. Richter has had legal problems before: he has fought over spam with the state of New York (settled for $50,000) as well as Microsoft (settled for $7 million).

News source: InfoWorld

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(2 replies) #1 adversedeviant on 22 Jan 2007 - 16:57
need to give him serious prison time cause hes obviously not learning
#1.1 XeonBuilder on 22 Jan 2007 - 17:10
Rgr that. A few nights with bubba sending ass spam might set him straight
#1.2 +Vegetunks on 22 Jan 2007 - 17:19
Quote - (XeonBuilder said @ #1.1)
Rgr that. A few nights with bubba sending ass spam might set him straight

HAHAHA Yeah. Thats funny
#2 Autoexec on 22 Jan 2007 - 17:23
I agree, if the guy is paying up $7m in settlements then he's obviously making a load of cash. (And not learning his lesson)
#3 MusicMan07 on 22 Jan 2007 - 18:14
People need to stop settling with this guy and really stick it to him, I agree with others it's Jail time.
#4 rev23dev on 22 Jan 2007 - 18:28
hey! i used to live in westminster! heheh
#5 harrisxml on 22 Jan 2007 - 20:00
<-- so sick of spam losers
#6 ThaCrip on 22 Jan 2007 - 20:25
yes NO one likes spam... i say the hell with him and send em to jail. cause it's like MusicMan07 said above .... if this guy keeps settling with people he will just keep doing it since obviously the guy is still making huge profits.

screw him!
#7 Mr Spoon on 22 Jan 2007 - 20:33
Westminster is a place in the UK - America stole the name
#8 hapbt on 22 Jan 2007 - 21:03
None of this crap is going to do anything real, the only actual way to stop spam is lose SMTP and POP3 and create a real standard for e-mail which isn't based on a 30 year old REQUEST FOR COMMENT that was written on a napkin!

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