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Facebook Wins $711 Million From Spammer
In addition to financial damages, Sanford Wallace, among the first to be crowned “Spam King,” may face jail time for ripping off millions of FaceBook users.
Thomas Claburn of InformationWeek follows this story that leads us all to stand up and cheer. For me, I think I would rather see him in jail — he’ll never pay what he owes.
Facebook has won yet another massive judgment against a spammer who already owes $234 million to MySpace. A California federal judge on Thursday granted Facebook’s request for a default judgment against Sanford Wallace, who is known to have been involved with spamming since the mid-1990s and with junk faxing before that.
Court documents indicate that Wallace and an associate who was later dropped from the case spammed Facebook users with phishing messages. Those who clicked on the links and submitted login information to phishing sites allowed Wallace and his associate to then spam the phishing victim’s friends, in turn generating more potential phishing victims. Facebook claims that Wallace also received payment for redirecting some spam recipients to Web sites that pay for referrals.
Full story found in informationweek.com (spam version) Print version
Don’t think it’s over
The threat is still very real, and is happening even today! Wallace sold names and techniques to other cyber crime rings, so expect the practice to continue.
SEE: Facebook Malware Again for the latest attacks on Facebook users.
Thanks for reading…
Editor / Publisher: InfoManager
InfoManager for Monday, November 2, 2009
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Facebook Wins $711 Million From Spammer
02 Thweet Tweets for Nov. 2
03 E-Maculation
04 Name the Cats
05 Task Timer gets better
06 SecretBox Locks your secrets
07 Clarus 1.5 and Clarus for iPhone
08 Mac Mini Media Center
09 The Mac Sale launches
10 UGNN RSS and other notes of migration
11 Quotes: Orwell, Radner, Einstein
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InfoManager for Monday, November 2, 2009
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
01 Facebook Wins $711 Million From Spammer
In addition to financial damages, Sanford Wallace, among
the first to be crowned 'Spam King,' may face jail time for
ripping off millions of FaceBook users.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/11/facebook-wins-711-million-from-spammer/
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02 Thweet Tweets for Nov. 2
Here we are for the next installment of Thweet Tweets, and
there's a lot of diversity here -- some of the more interesting,
unique, weird, useful, amazing, cool, informative, educational,
valuable, free, beneficial tweets we've seen recently
in the blogosphere and tweetosphere ... like these, to name a few:
* Titaium Intelligent Design Mouse
* 4 New Ways To Listen To Radio On Your Mac
* How an Original iPod Ended Up in London?s Science Museum
* 25 Useful Shortcuts for Safari Good stuff!
* 10 brilliant iPhone apps for commuters
* The power of tweets
* 10 Features You Should Know About Your Camera
* Techno: unmanned choppers
* and many others
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/11/thweet-tweets-for-nov-2/
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03 E-Maculation
I have mentioned emulators for the Mac many times in the past.
However, this site seems to be better organized with more
options than in those I have mentioned before.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/10/e-maculation/
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04 Name the Cats
Can you name all of the cats that are the code names
for the various Mac OS X operating systems?
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/10/name-the-cats/
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05 Task Timer gets better
Task Timer is an easy-to-use project management tool that
allows users to track time spent on an unlimited number of
projects and tasks. Now it's been upgraded with
major changes for Mac OS X and Windows
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/11/task-timer-gets-better/
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06 SecretBox Locks your secrets
In these days of all kinds of cybercrime, and even in-office
data theft, you need to be more careful than ever. SecretBox
allows you to keep your secrets in a safe place. It uses
the industry standard 256-bit AES encryption to
protect your data. Check it out
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/11/secretbox-locks-your-secrets/
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07 Clarus 1.5 and Clarus for iPhone
Lately with a cat and dog in a one bedroom apartment I have
started to see a need to have 'Pet Management' software.
(No word on its coverage of dog cows.)
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/10/clarus-1-5-and-clarus-for-iphone/
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08 Mac Mini Media Center
Matt Russell's article called 'The Ultimate Mac Mini Media
Center' really lists everything you need at the date it was
written. Today's Mac Mini can actually be purchased as a
server with two 500 Gig hard drives and no optical drive
with Snow Leopard Server software.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/10/mac-mini-media-center/
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09 The Mac Sale launches
The Mac Sale has announced their latest bundle, containing
10 great Mac apps, interviews with the developers and even a song!
The Mac Sale should again provide a great deal for customers and
importantly, a fair deal for developers. The apps in this bundle
are HoudahGeo, MacJournal, CrossOver Games, Picturesque,
Morph Age Regular, Searchlight, Vinoteka, iMaginator,
Opacity Express and Stor.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/10/the-mac-sale-launches/
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10 UGNN RSS and other notes of migration
A big thanks goes out to everyone who alerted us of problems in
the new site -- they've all been fixed, particularly the RSS
functions, which seems to be fairly popular.
The RSS is now an orange button at the top right of the site, or
http://www.ugnn.com/feed/
Note also, at the bottom of each post is a "Share" button for
sharing UGN articles to your favorite blog, news feed or social
networking site.
TAGS
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If you are interested in a particular subject category, see the
bottom of each post for "TAGS" ... clicking on a tag will
automatically gather similar posts from the site.
WANTED: Guest Bloggers
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If you have information or a story you want to share to the
rest of us, and you're looking for a platform, please contact
Lynn or Fred with your particulars. We'd love to have some
participation from others in the UG community with beneficial
information to share with others.
* http://www.UGNN.com/contact/
Publish your press release or news in UGNN
* http://www.ugnn.com/post-your-article/
Good-bye User-Groups.net
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ALL OTHER DOMAINS for User-Groups.net will go dark in just 18 days.
This includes www.usergroup.org and www.UGAcademy.org.
The sites and their content will NOT be archived - END of an era.
We will be looking for new owners of the domains however.
All of the user group listings and links will also disappear.
If you wish to continue the benefits of having your link
aggregated via the UGNN, then don't forget to register your
group and renew your listing. You'll be included in the
"User Groups" department and linked elsewhere on the site.
Register your User Group in the UGNN Registry
* http://www.ugnn.com/ug-registrar/
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11 Quotes: Orwell, Radner, Einstein
"Who controls the past controls the future:
who controls the present controls the past."
- George Orwell
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy
is to allow part of us to die --
whether it is our spirit, or creativity, or our glorious uniqueness."
- Gilda Radner
"Everything should be as simple as possible, and no simpler."
- Albert Einstein
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Have a great week!
Pau
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THE INFO MANAGER
A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred Showker.
Lynn is a veteran of the UGN (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group
Network. He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet
and User Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member,
he's served as volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and
many points in between.
Currently working primarily the with the Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth
but also works with the Apple Corp of Dallas and is a lifetime
member of TUMS the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society).
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum
days, then out onto the web.
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