MySpace Sues A Big Spammer

January 24, 2007 – 2:56 pm

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MySpace has been rumored to be getting tougher on spam, and now a new lawsuit indicates this is true. And it looks like MySpace spam has a lot of the same players as email spam. The defendant named in the newest case, is no stranger to email spam, either.

Social-networking site MySpace announced today it has filed suit against Richter, calling him the mastermind behind millions of spam “bulletins” sent to MySpace users’ accounts without their knowledge.

MySpace said those bulletins, allegedly sent between July 2006 and December 2006, violate state and federal laws, including California’s anti-spam statute and the CAN-SPAM Act, which Richter publicly supported at its passing.

Indeed the CAN-SPAM law is what MySpace is using to sue Richter over. Richter also phished accounts, which is also illegal. All in all, Richter is alleged to net several million per month so there’s no guarantee that these suits will hurt him at all.

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