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  Sanford Wallace - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Sanford Wallace is a spammer who came to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original Spam King.
Wallace also spearheaded an early manifestation of astroturfing, using false names to defend the activities of his company.
Wallace pulled out of the new venture quickly, citing concerns (in some reports) that his return to illegal junk fax operations had failed to provide sufficient funds.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sanford_Wallace   (685 words)

  
 Eulogy for the Spam King | Perspectives | CNET News.com
Sanford Wallace changed the world, for the worse.
What really stopped Wallace was not legislation or even litigation, but the consensus by people who run the Internet that we can't afford to let spam get out of control--it could bury us all.
Wallace was the most unpopular man on the Internet for more than a year, and he is walking away from that position with his health intact.
www.news.com /2010-1071-281101.html   (1128 words)

  
  Sanford Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sanford "Spamford" Wallace is a spammer who came to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original Spam King.
Wallace also spearheaded an early manifestation of astroturfing, using false names to defend the activities of his company.
Wallace pulled out of the new venture quickly, citing concerns (in some reports) that his return to illegal junk fax operations had failed to provide sufficient funds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanford_Wallace   (737 words)

  
 CSPRI - Activities
Sanford Wallace is president and founder of Promo Enterprises of Philadelphia.
Commencing in year 1995, Sanford Wallace took Promo Enterprises into the next millenium by transforming the broadcast advertising business from the fax modality to bulk e-mail.
Sanford Wallace will be featured in the January, 1996 edition of Wired Magazine, as well as Internet World Magazine in early 1996.
www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu /library/seminar_archive/95-96/nov95/wallace.php   (113 words)

  
 Spam King Revels in Bad-Boy Image
Wallace has also formed an association for junk e-mailers, the Internet E-Mail Marketing Council, which is establishing guidelines, filtering programs and procedures to help Internet account holders to get off mailing lists.
Wallace, however, insists his business is no different from television advertising, billboards and the junk mail that clogs traditional mail boxes.
Wallace says that the people fighting him the hardest are those who have been on the Internet the longest -- people, he says, who "had a free ride" from government financing of the global network's development.
partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/080997spam-wallace.html   (1513 words)

  
 Wired News: Exiled Spam King's Go-Go Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Wallace said he settled all of the judgments against him "amicably" and didn't have to pay EarthLink or any of the other litigants a penny.
Wallace was working as a radio DJ in New York at the time, and was interested in doing "live" shows.
Wallace, who had just separated from his wife, moved to New Hampshire and bought the club from Rines in January 2002.
www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,60714,00.html   (966 words)

  
 KING OF SPAM SANFORD WALLACE GETS CANNED - Computer Business Review
Wallace himself is also liable for a further $1m if he ever tries to use Earthlink to transmit his unsolicited emails at any time in the future, or to send them to Earthlink customers.
Wallace acted as a bulk email clearing house organizing the distribution of millions of emails through various ISPs and online service providers, often using the 'spoofing' technique so that it appears that the email comes from a customer of the same service provider.
But Wallace fired back and got a temporary restraining order against AOL stopping it from blocking until the court case started by Cyber promotions was resolved.
www.cbronline.com /article_cg.asp?guid=245F1A80-D2B6-4F96-BFAB-C0B527C2F2C8   (310 words)

  
 TIME.com: Wallace Trouble in Dixie -- May 1, 1972 -- Page 1
The fight between Sanford the Southern progressive and Wallace the Southern populist is being billed as the "Dixie Classic." To counter the mounting threat posed by Sanford, Wallace last week made a hasty visit to Statesville, N.C., where he figures to capitalize on a school integration controversy that has plagued the city.
Sanford, meanwhile, is busily canvassing up to eight counties a day, setting up "listening posts" to hear the gripes of voters.
Sanford, a champion of civil rights who sent his children to integrated public schools as early as a decade ago, preaches: "While Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, I was opening the doors to education for everyone."
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,877685,00.html   (636 words)

  
 CSPRI - Activities
Sanford Wallace is the President of Promo Enterprises, a Philadelphia firm which does direct marketing on the Internet using electronic mail.
According to Sanford Wallace, this new wave of advertising is no different from the traditional junk mail approach.
Wallace argues that the means of obtaining personal information for electronic advertising are similar to those of snailmail advertising.
www.cpi.seas.gwu.edu /library/seminar_archive/95-96/nov95/abstract.php   (1030 words)

  
 A Cyberpromo victim strikes back...
Thus, every time Wallace sends junk email, I (and all other addressees) must pay to receive his junk email - and there is no effective means of refusing it before delivery; the junk mail has been delivered by the time it is detected, and thus I have already paid for it.
Wallace's bandwidth provider, Apex Global Internet Services, has been notified that he is violating Federal law every time junk email is sent to my account, and has refused to take any action to prevent future violations.
Fraud: Wallace's Web page advertises "Block-proof autoresponders" and at the same time, his "e-Filter" software; the one is purported to be able to send email to any address with no possibility of the addressee refusing it or deleting it unread, while the other purports to be able to delete unread any undesired message.
user.mc.net /~mustang/fightbk1.htm   (1687 words)

  
 'Spamford' Wallace hit with $4 million fine for spyware practices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Sanford Wallace and his company have to pay more than $4 million.
In 2004 the Federal Trade Commission ordered Sanford Wallace to immediately stop all spyware activity as he was infecting computers with spyware and then trying to sell infected computer users the remedy.
Sanford Wallace was nicknamed "Spamford" by some members of the anti-spam community because of his notoriety for sending junk email during the 1990s.
www.sophos.com /pressoffice/news/articles/2006/05/spamford.html   (482 words)

  
 Bigfoot sues defunct spammer | CNET News.com
The free email firm sues notorious junk emailer Sanford Wallace and Cyber Promotions, even though he is out of business for now.
Sanford Wallace and his junk emailing company Cyber Promotions may be out of business, but that doesn't mean he can hide from his enemies.
Meanwhile, Wallace is still plotting to get back into the spamming business by building his own backbone network from which he and all others could spam the Internet.
msn-cnet.com.com /2100-1023_3-208944.html   (455 words)

  
 Wallace To Set Up Spambone - Technology News by TechWeb
Despite settling a $2 million lawsuit with EarthLink Network Monday, Cyber Promotions' Sanford Wallace said he could be back in the e-mail advertisement business as early as this week with his own spam-friendly ISP.
If all goes as Wallace and business partner Quantum Communications plan, the announcement will be the kickoff of a "spambone" -- a secure Internet backbone connection the pair can use to host advertisers' Web pages and send commercial e-mail without fear of losing their link to the Net.
Wallace and his Philadelphia-based Cyber Promotions company have risen to online infamy in the past several years after filling Net mailboxes with millions of pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail.
www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB19980331S0010   (649 words)

  
 Wired News: Sanford Wallace: Back to the Fax?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Sanford Wallace may have relinquished his Internet Spam King throne and picked up the old tool of his trade: the fax machine.
Wallace had a history of sending junk faxes before he moved to the Web; during his career online he built a 25-million-spam-a-day business, suffered multiple lawsuits and was eventually dumped from more than 20 ISPs.
In case incessant radio play of "Candle in the Wind" weren't enough to drive non-Elton John fans insane, Spanish Windows users have been infected by a virus that is spreading the maudlin tune digitally as well.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,9847,00.html   (491 words)

  
 Frivolous lawsuit dismissed: "Wallace v. Welch" (Sanford Wallace and SmartBot Inc. v. Mark Welch and Adbility)
Wallace hoped that by suing a well-known consumer advocate and journalist, he would once again see his name and picture in the newspapers and on TV.
In the days just before Wallace's frivolous lawsuit was filed, Welch was featured on CNBC and quoted in other media reports regarding his role as one of several consumer advocates who persuaded Yahoo to reverse an unfair policy imposed on GeoCities users.
Wallace's primary goal was to "piggy-back" on Welch's recent publicity.
www.markwelch.com /wallace.htm   (248 words)

  
 The Happy Hacker -- Busted!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Sanford Wallace, the man who built a business empire with spam, has been ordered tp stop his crimes yet again by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Astonishingly enough, however, Wallace is not going to prison, even though the FTC has ruled that in 2005 he broke into countless computers by exploiting a flaw in Internet Explorer.
Wallace gets into trouble with the law over and over again yet all he ever gets is fines and orders to pretty please quit breaking into hundreds of thousands of computers.
happyhacker.org /crime/busted.shtml   (472 words)

  
 Return of the spam king | CNET News.com
Sanford Wallace, the infamous president of junk email company Cyber Promotions, is putting together a backbone service provider just for spammers.
Wallace said his goal is to legitimize spam, much in the same way that junk snail mail is considered legitimate.
Though Wallace readily acknowledges that his goal is to make money, he added that it makes sense to have spammers follow rules.
www.news.com /2100-1023-205651.html   (665 words)

  
 Biography: Sanford Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Once upon a time, Sanford Wallace was the undisputed Spam King.
As a measure of defiance, Wallace adopted the most-used name "spamford" as a domain identity for his ISP service.
Wallace likened himself to Madonna and Howard Stern in terms of being a rebellious type, taking steps to evade the various e-mail filtering mechanisms designed to block his mailings
www.annonline.com /interviews/970522/biography.html   (157 words)

  
 StopScum: May 2006 Archives
We will trace Sanford Wallace's own comments while the case was pending and provide guidance for you.
Sanford Wallace is a name you probably remember from his days as one of the worlds largest Spammers via Cyber Promotions.
Wallace owes 4 Millon plus, your thoughts and actions are deplorable and your justifications are false.
www.stopscum.com /archives/2006/05   (848 words)

  
 FTC sues Sanford Wallace - geek/talk
Wallace’s browser exploit ads (the three most common are mylovenet, freevegasclubs.com, great expectations dating) on many if not all networks including our own.
Wallace starts out with just an image and link in the iframe code they give you.
In Sanford's defense, I'm a little surprised everyone is calling his exploit spyware.
www.geekvillage.com /forums/showthread.php?t=25621   (1900 words)

  
 Web traffic: Spam king dethroned | Tech News on ZDNet
The junk e-mailer and fax king was dethroned more than two years ago, when Congress made junk e-mail illegal, and Wallace was the subject of lawsuits from people so intimidated by his spam that they refused to log on.
Wallace said the company marketed discussion lists and e-mail collection services to corporations interested in opt-in marketing.
When he was fighting Wallace, Ray Everett-Church, co-founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, was a bitter enemy.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-522384.html   (763 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Technology
Wallace nor does it have any plans of such contact.
Eager to discover which company is about to become the most hated backbone provider on the Internet, sleuth set to work with the few clues they had.
As of late Friday evening, the third partner in the venture has yet to be uncovered, although Wallace and Rines promise more details will be available this week.
www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/11/24/57.asp   (505 words)

  
 FTC Orders Former Spam King To Pay $4 Million For Spyware Scam - Security Technology News by TechWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Wallace, who in 1998 swore off spam, was ordered by a federal court to give back $4,089,500 made by convincing consumers to pay $30 per copy for Spy Wiper and Spy Deleter, two purported anti-spyware programs.
Users were duped into thinking they needed the software because Wallace exploited an Internet Explorer vulnerability to install real spyware to their PCs, including a small program that opened the CD-ROM tray and displayed the message "If your cd-rom drive’s open.
The FTC first filed a lawsuit against Wallace and his SmartBOT company in October 2004; in January 2005, the federal agency announced an agreement with Wallace that banned him from distributing any software until the case was settled.
www.techweb.com /wire/security/187200264   (369 words)

  
 The War on Spam » Like the Proverbial Bad Penny, Sanford Wallace Turns Up - This Time Sued for Spyware
The news that the Federal Trade Commission has filed its first anti-spyware case is all but eclipsed by the fact that the defendant in the case is none other than Sanford Wallace himself, the original king of spam (sorry, Mr.
Sanford Wallace, and his company CyberPromotions, reached new heights of infamy as the defendants in one of the very first successeful anti-spam cases, way back in 1997 when Wallace was sued by both AOL and Compuserve for his wicked spamming ways.
This entry was written by admin and posted on 10/12/2004 at 12:05 am and is filed under Imported.
spam.gunters.org /archive/2004/10/12/like-the-proverbial-bad-penny-sanford-wallace-turns-up-this-time-sued-for-spyware   (177 words)

  
 Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wallace is a surname, of Scottish origin (see Clan Wallace), and may refer to
Chris Wallace (journalist), a newscaster at NBC and Fox News, the son of Mike Wallace
William Wallace (professor) a professor at the London School of Economics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wallace   (493 words)

  
 The FAQ on Sanford Wallace!!!
It is ironic that >the psychology leaders here (against: off-topic spam, bringing up the >past, and stalking and harassment) have supported this jerk for years.
Now about S. Wallace, >absolute moron and scum of the earth: > > >The Internet’s most notorious spammer, Sanford Wallace of Cyber Promotions, >Inc., and other bulk e-mailers have been accused of spoofing addresses, >cloaking headers, and sending out millions of scattershot e-mails for >various >schlocky schemes and products.
Wallace also will be >held liable if he violates a number of other restrictions, including >distribution of EarthLink member e-mail addresses.
science.talk-about-network.com /The_FAQ_on_Sanford_Wallace-007229-12972.html   (1141 words)

  
 Spyware Hustler Hit With $4M Penalty
Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.
Wallace was at the center of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) first spyware case in October 2004.
The FTC sued both Wallace and Lansky, claiming that their secret downloads of spyware were unfair, deceptive and violated federal law.
www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3603791   (699 words)

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