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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...High-profile judgments like the one against Wallace are the exception to the rule; the majority of spammers go undiscovered and unpunished. Wallace, who already had a $230 million judgment levied against him in a case brought by MySpace last year, has already filed for bankruptcy; the judge in the Facebook case referred the Spam King to federal court to face additional charges, which could carry a prison sentence. The penalties combined are by far the largest ever for spamming - Facebook won an $873 million judgment against a spammer in 2008 that is the largest single penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...tell computers and humans apart"; no, the acronym doesn't really fit.) The point of the CAPTCHA is that reading those swirly letters is something that computers aren't very good at. If you can read them, you're probably not a piece of software run by a spammer. Congratulations--you can have an e-mail account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Spammer's Revenge" [Jan. 15] was stunningly irresponsible and defamed our clients, Omega World Travel Inc., and its subsidiary, Cruise.com Inc., which were falsely identified in the story as "spammers." The article was based on several allegations made over the past two years by Mark Mumma, a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Omega against him and his company, Mummagraphics Inc. Omega alleged that Mumma engaged in a smear campaign waged on his many websites to brand our clients "criminal spammers" after Omega refused to pay Mumma $6,250 to avoid a lawsuit he threatened to file. Mumma based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 5, 2007 | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

TIME regrets characterizing Omega and its subsidiary as "spammers" without making it clear that "spammer" is merely an allegation by Mumma and that the company's e-mails had complied with federal antispam laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 5, 2007 | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

Time's article titled A Spammer's Revenge (Jan. 15) by Reynolds Holding, is stunningly irresponsible and defames our clients, Omega World Travel, Inc., and its subsidiary, Cruise.com, Inc., who are falsely identified as "spammers" in that article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spammer's Revenge | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

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