MySpace targets spam
Search Engines
14 May 2008
MySpace has been awarded $230 million (£118 million) after it tracked internet spammers and reported their activities.
The social networking company told the Associated Press it has zero tolerance for those who attempt to act illegally on its site.
"We remain committed to punishing those who violate the law and try to harm our members," security officer, Hemanshu Nigam, said.
Spammers, Sanford Wallace, and his partner, Walter Rines, failed to attend the hearing when the case went to court but were still fined.
AT one point, Mr Wallace was head of Cyber Promotions, a company that sent out 30 million junk emails each day.
MySpace said the pair sent more than 730,000 messages to its users after taking over accounts with phishing scams.
John Levine, a board member of anti-spam advocacy group, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, told the Associated Press it was unlikely MySpace would collect the money.
"The giant judgments are all defaults, which means they don't necessarily even know how to find the spammer," he said.
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