NEW YORK (AP) - The popular Internet destination MySpace has won
an almost quarter-billion-dollar damage judgment against a
notorious spammer known as the "Spam King."
A federal judge in Los Angeles issued the award when Sanford
Wallace and associate Walter Rines failed to show up for a court
hearing.
MySpace sued under the federal anti-spam law that provides $100
in damages for each violation and triples that if the violation is
on purpose.
Wallace and Rines were accused of sending more than 730,000
messages to MySpace members as fake friends, recommending "cool"
sites that turned out to be money-making schemes selling things
like ring tones.
MySpace says the spamming ate up valuable space and angered
members.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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