Internet Marketing Tycoon

**handsome rob** · 01-23-2007, 01:05 PM

From /.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...23211&from=rss

Harry Maugans writes to mention a lawsuit filed by MySpace against Scott Richter, the 'Spam King'. Filed under California's harsh anti-spam laws, the suit alleges that Richter sent millions of unsolicited 'bulletins' to MySpace users over the past few years. From the article: "The suit is aiming for monetary damages and an injunction that would permanently ban Richter and his affiliates from MySpace. The amount of money sought by MySpace has not been disclosed. Richter was already ordered to pay $7 million in a 2003 lawsuit filed by Microsoft after initially refusing to settle the dispute for $100,000. Microsoft announced in 2005 that it would be using the money from the settlement to fuel further antispam operations."

**Nick204k** · 01-23-2007, 03:35 PM

Uh oh....

**Moelman** · 01-23-2007, 04:15 PM

I think this is the same as the other CPA-empire suit. I'm glad something is being done.

**Nick204k** · 01-23-2007, 08:38 PM

This isnt going to effect cpaempire publishers do you think? like maybe CPAE shutdown?

**Ganceann** · 01-24-2007, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by LifeHit

This isnt going to effect cpaempire publishers do you think? like maybe CPAE shutdown?

It will have a direct impact on CPAEmpire.

More of the advertisers will desert it if CPAEmpire is directly associated with Phishing - as the advertisers would also be indirectly linked to such practices and this would harm their reputation.

CPAEmpire may not shutdown over the case, but business will severely slow which can mean much less publishers and advertisers being interested and in the long term could well be the end. However, it would still be operational on a much smaller scope - something I doubt the CEO would be willing to continue doing and so could look to sell it or close it depending on the outcome.

**Frisco** · 02-01-2007, 12:25 AM

lol That's crazy. I get sooooooo many spammers on my page and bulletins, etc. It's annoying but ****, never knew it was that annoying.

**Sidekick** · 03-10-2007, 01:15 PM

those where ALL phished accounts. People normally add their own friends and spam them lol

**imported_feros** · 03-10-2007, 03:17 PM

Finally.

**imported_Smaaz** · 03-10-2007, 03:33 PM

I wonder how many users will be left after the spammers have left the myspace community

**Sidekick** · 03-10-2007, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Smaaz

I wonder how many users will be left after the spammers have left the myspace community

I bet 50 percent of the profiles are fakes

**MafiaMaster** · 03-10-2007, 03:48 PM

And that's something that myspace probably doesn't realize. Get rid of the spammers and you lose half your traffic. :-p

**Moelman** · 03-10-2007, 06:12 PM

I'll bet they realize it, they just don't do anything about it. Like you said lose them and they lose a ton of traffic.

**jess84** · 03-11-2007, 07:32 PM

I wonder what the latest is..

**silverspike** · 03-12-2007, 12:31 AM

i would say that about 30 or so percent of the active userbase is an advertisers account or product account.

**Ganceann** · 03-12-2007, 12:34 AM

MySpace will not totally take out their 'spam' accounts for the same reason that Google does not totally eliminate MFA sites from adsense ... at the end of the day it makes them money and they are a business.

However, the bulletin spam is not really a concern that MySpace has - it is the issue of Phishing rather than spamming that they are looking to eliminate as Phishing will adversely affect their ROI while innocent spamming will not.

**thewupk** · 03-12-2007, 10:36 AM

That's my feeling Ganceann. Those that phish and promote porn are the ones that they will go after hard and heavy. And I can't say that I don't blame them.