Web traffic: Spam king ousted
News Spam king Sanford Wallace has had his ups and downs since going legitimate. On the other hand, Everett-Church added, "If there is anyone who I'd bet on to roar back, it is Sanford Wallace. The junk emailer and fax king was dethroned more than two...
[July 21, 2000, 10:13]
Anti-spyware 'deceiving consumers'
Talkback His name is Sanford Wallace and is a resident of Barrington, NH, but has been working in Las Vegas. The programmer of SpyWiper/SpyDeleter is being investigated by the FTC. He says he may have to return to NH, but also says he has done nothing...
[October 8, 2004, 17:34]
Facebook wins lawsuit against 'spam king'
News Facebook was awarded $711m (£429m) in a judgement on Thursday against self-described 'spam king' Sanford Wallace. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the US District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook's application for a default...
[October 30, 2009, 8:06]
FTC to launch all-out assault on spyware merchants
News In what could prove to be one the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.
[October 12, 2004, 15:05]
Marketing companies take tips from hackers
News PassThisOn cofounder Sanford Wallace, who won Internet fame in a previous career as the self-professed "King of Spam," acknowledged use of the bug. According to Wallace, the home page switches were caused by a test he was conducting to garner more...
[February 26, 2001, 8:05]
Spyware kingpin hammered for $4m
News The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has wrapped up its first major spyware lawsuit with a $4m (£2.1m) judgment against spam king-turned-spyware master Sanford Wallace. A judge in the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered...
[May 5, 2006, 10:50]
Spam maker swallows junk email double meaning
News And in 1997, the company took on a junk e-mail entrepreneur named Sanford "Spamford" Wallace, who posed with cans of Spam to promote his business. Hormel Foods, the maker of the legendary spiced lunch meat made of pork shoulders and ham, says it...
[May 31, 2001, 14:22]
King of spam gets legal
News Wallace's old company, Cyber-Promotions, used to send as many as 25 million unsolicited e-mail advertisements each day, gaining him a reputation as the depraved "King of Spam". In April 1998, however, Wallace renounced his title and launched a...
[July 9, 1999, 9:39]
Spammers seek their own Net backbone
News Rines, founder of Quantum Communications of Stratham, N.H.and Wallace, founder of Cyber Promotions, both specialize in sending out millions of unsolicited E-mail messages a day on behalf of marketing customers.
[October 9, 1997, 14:58]
