Facebook Vs. Spammers, Round Two 57
An anonymous reader writes "Three months after being awarded $873 million in a lawsuit against Atlantis Blue Capital for violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Facebook earlier this week filed a federal complaint against 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace in San Jose District Court. Las Vegas night club manager Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw are also named as defendants in the suit."
These filings do not mark the first time Wallace has faced legal action; last May, MySpace won a $230 million judgment against him.
Re:Judgement-proof (Score:3, Interesting)
Usually these spammers insulate themselves from the effect of negative verdicts against them by moving all their assets to offshore accounts where the fed can't touch them and neither can lawyers looking to claim their $x million in damages.
If only we could literally take the shirts off their backs in partial fulfillment of their obligations we might start to make some headway against the spam kings. Any other suggestions?
Don't underestimate the ability of the feds to get at accounts; the most powerful being imprisoning them on contempt charges.
Bullets! (Score:5, Interesting)
OK, I'm not a cruel man. At heart, I can't really support the death penalty for anyone.
But if I read tomorrow that Sanford Wallace was found dead with a bullet in his brain, I would have a hard time suppressing a loud cheer. Fucking deadbeat doesn't deserve the life he's wasted on crime.