Sanford Wallace

Sanford Wallace ( born 1968 ) is an American bulk mailers from spam e- mails, which is notorious in the Internet community since 1997, even as the " Spam King" he called himself, and accordingly put in scene.

In the late 1990s, his company Cyber ​​Promotions, aka Cyber ​​Promo was generally frowned upon as a source of unsolicited e -mail. Because of his attitude towards spam and his perseverance, he acquired the nickname derived from his first name "spam Ford ". Later, he thereupon register the domain spamford.com.

Prior to his career as an e -mail spammers Wallace already obtained recognition with other questionable marketing methods, such as the sending of commercial faxes, as " junk fax " and outlawed in the United States since 1991 method.

After numerous lawsuits against him and related financial penalties he made last by the judgment of a U.S. Federal District Court in Los Angeles headlines through the Internet forums operator MySpace a claim for damages of 230 million U.S. dollars against him and the equally well-known for spam activities Walter Rines and another was awarded. This eliminates solely on Wallace a portion of accounts receivable in the amount of 158.9 million U.S. dollars.

Chronology

Company Cyber ​​Promotions

Wallace Company Cyber ​​Promo succeeded in the development of tactics to circumvent and -blocker called spam filters, such as the use of a forged sender addresses, relaying and multi-homing. Thus, the successful delivery of promotional e- mails could be ensured again despite the use of these defense mechanisms. Wallace also led rallies in the form of astroturfing and using false names to defend the activities of his company.