Facebook & Myspace Taking Some Spammers To Court 96
kevinqtipreedy writes "Social networks like Facebook and Myspace are now bringing spammers into the court systems in new attempts to put a stop to it. Although spammers rarely show up in court and the suits do not always lead to monetary reward, companies are hoping the 'chilling effect' will help in the effort to curb spam."
Re:ok how about... (Score:5, Insightful)
scams targeting women are more accepted as normal. ie... all the ads saying a woman needs this or that product for great skin, hair, ect... every womans magazine and beauty product uses the same tactic to sell crap to women. 'you need this or you're an ugly fat cow'. Its not even thought about as anything but normal.
that crap doesnt work on men. but the ones that play on their desperation to get laid work real well.
Women have their vanity targeted. Men have their hormones targeted.
One is accepted. One isnt.
I have been suing spammers (Score:5, Insightful)
I have been suing spammers for a few years. Actually I sued the companies that were advertised the spammers, and paid the spammers. Some companies that have been sued have taken steps to terminate the 'affiliates' that were sending the spam.
Lately, it seems less effective. But, if more people started suing spammers, and the companies that hire them, that violate the law it dry up the marketplace for spammers.
One company, Deniro Marketing who runs amateurmatch.com, went as far as lying to the Court and then having the Wayback Machine delete any traces of the evidence when called on it.
Another company, I sued 3 times and obtained 3 default judgments, collected over $200k on the first two. Of course they claim that even though I seized money from the accounts, they didn't know anything about the lawsuits. Another person I know collected over $100k from them. Recently, in the last suit, the Defendants were able to vacate the judgment and be permitted to file an answer. I have seized several of their domain names to prevent them from selling them. Defendants counsel have been lying through their teeth and playing games -- but what can you expect from a spammer's lawyer.
I'll have to start putting up the details of this lawsuit. But I have details of the others on my web site.
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http://www.barbieslapp.com/spam [barbieslapp.com]
So many spammers to sue, so little time.
Re:Self Despamming (Score:2, Insightful)
I hope they nail them to the wall (Score:5, Insightful)
No one can sanely make the comparison between junk paper mail and spam emails any more. Junk paper mail was never primarily designed to steal any thing from you and is generally benign in nature. It's just advertising.
On the other hand, spam emails have been the motivation of criminally minded individuals for the last 10 plus years. Due to the light handed approach to penalizing these con artists, they've been allowed to take it to any extreme they see fit.
I rank these guys in the same category as domain squatters.
Hang 'em high, judges.
Re:Self Despamming (Score:3, Insightful)
Who would want to Mod?
I can't remember the last time I used a mod point. all I ever get is "You've already posted something in this discussion."
Re:I have been suing spammers (Score:3, Insightful)
How did they get the wayback machine modified? Is there some kind of exclusion form you can use?