largest anti-spam award ever has been won by the popular online hangout MySpace

The largest anti-spam award ever has been won by the popular online hangout MySpace over junk messages sent to its members.The award was of $230 million (euro148.65 million). Wallace earned the monikers “Spam King” and “Spamford” as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s. He left that company, Cyber Promotions, following lawsuits from leading Internet service providers such as Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, only to re-emerge in a spyware case that led to a $4 million (euro2.59 million) federal judgment against him in 2006.There was zero tolerance by Myspace for those who attempt to act illegally on their site and they continue to punish those who violate the law and try to harm our members.

Through “phishing” scams,Rines and Wallace created their own MySpace accounts or took over existing ones by stealing passwords. they then emailed Myspace members to check cool video or site and they get money when anybody hits or buy something from the reffered site.In court papers, MySpace said the activities resulted in bandwidth and delivery-related costs, along with complaints from hundreds of users. The company also said some of the outside Web sites contained adult material, potentially harming teens who use MySpace. Although it was tough for the service providers to collect such awards but the judgment seems to be a big victory for Myspace. The award amount was described as a “landmark” by a Los Angeles-based company.