Spam King Sanford Wallace Finally Hit With $4M Penalty
Roy Mark writes on internetnews.com:
Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.More here.
A New Hampshire federal district court ordered Wallace and his company, Smartbot.Net, to pay more than $4 million in restitution, and it permanently barred Wallace from downloading any software to consumers 'computer without the users' consent.
Wallace was at the center of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) first spyware case in October 2004.
posted by Fergie @ 5/04/2006 10:31:00 AM
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