Junk mail menace canned Self-styled former spam king Scott Richter has been ordered to pay MySpace $6m over allegations he blitzed users of the social networking website with junk mail messages sent from hijacked accounts.… ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Tue, Jun 17 2008
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