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Judge Kicks Notorious Spammer Off Facebook

Judge Kicks Notorious Spammer Off Facebook

A judge in California on Monday ordered convicted spammer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace to stay away from Facebook. Wallace is accused of flooding Facebook users with unsolicited messages, which appear to...

created by Mary Richard | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Jordan Yerman

Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Spam Law

The Virginia Supreme Court struck down a far-reaching anti-spam law, contradicting its own prior ruling on the matter. In its opinion, the court cited the value of anonymity, and its role in the spread of the...

created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
189 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment

TechnologyBB

MySpace Wins $234M Suit Against Spammers

Facebook has had its own set of problems, but nothing on the scale of the 735,000+ spam messages sent to members on MySpace.My own account was so inundated with it that I refused to check my account on MySpace for...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
817 views | 4 recommendations | 13 comments

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lordcenon

How to avoid spam getting into my mail box

The great news after the capture of Scott Richter, who reigned as the self-proclaimed Spam King of the interet, has turned in his crown to suffer a pre-historic mailing system called "snail mail"; but the...

created by lordcenon | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
485 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

ricknight

Spam King arrested in Seattle: Does It Matter?

America's number-one spammer has been busted, facing nearly a million dollars' worth of fines and sized assets along with a five-year prison term if convicted. This guy isn't necessarily the author of all those...

created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Wikipedia Leads; Will Search Engines NoFollow?

"Wikipedia has announced that all of its outgoing hyperlinks will now include the rel=”nofollow” attribute, which instructs search engines to disregard the links. Search engines infer a page’s importance by seeing who links to it — pages that get many links,...

created by jonesy | 5 years ago
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Spam You

Who provides the bulk of your personal security relative to these threats? You do, with the help of leverage provided corporate software companies. The future is here already, don't look to the government for solutions...