$6 Million Myspace Spammer

Scott Richter of Westminster, Colorado was ordered to pay U.S. $ 6 million ($ 1.2 million in legal fees and $ 4.8 million in damages) legal costs and damages to thousands of users of MySpace.

In January 2007, he’s pumping more than 100 million spams a day, messages were delivered from phished MySpace accounts, following to the findings of Philip Boesch, the arbitrator appointed by the court in the case. In he’s public statement, Richter said he and his company, Media Breakaway, were happy to have this issue behind them, noting that the award was 95 percent less than the amount requested by MySpace .

This is not the first time a company Scott Richter had cough millions of dollars for the fight against spam costs. In 2005, his previous company, Optinrealbig.com, paid $ 7 million to settle charges brought by Microsoft.

Attack by the media, which has no other pending cases spam, is doing its utmost to build a team of compliance and make sure it is acting within the law, said Steven Richter.

MySpace Richter said the award was the latest in a series of measures to fight against abuses on its website. In May, the company has received $ 230 million judgement against spam Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines.