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Where's Sanford Wallace Now?

Posted by michael on from the good-old-days dept.

capt.Hij writes "There is a story at Fosters about Sanford Wallace who is described as once being the 'King of Spam.' The story describes how he made lots of money in the early days of the internet but got tired of fighting the spam fighters. He is now the owner of a night club in New Hampshire. Here is how he describes his life now: 'Back in the day, I used to make lots of money surrounded by computers. Now, I make lots of money surrounded by beautiful women.'" If "Sanford Wallace" doesn't ring a bell, you need to read some old stories.

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  1. Making money, surrounded by beautiful women... by heironymouscoward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds cool. But AFAIK the average lifespan of nightclub owners is pretty short. Also, it's like working in a PC shop. Eventually the nice bodywork all looks the same.

    Sigh. I should be so unlucky.

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  2. They don't care by MoonFog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said.
    To me, this is one of the biggest problem. These people don't realise that what they are doing is wrong, or they flat out don't care. When it comes to telemarketing I can always tell them to f**k off and never call me again, har to do with a spam mail which return adress is a fake.

  3. Re:Sounds like quite a club... by BgJonson79 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, in NH, this kind of violence is quite rare. The problem is all the people from MA coming up. Of course, I live in this area, and EVERYONE makes fun of the town of Rochester (pop: 33,000), even the people who live there.

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  4. He is still Spamford.... by scifience · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sanford Wallace still runs a viral marketing website, PassThisOn.com. It changes users's home page by exploiting a, you guessed it, patchless security hole in Internet Explorer.


    A recent thread about it on GeekVillage is at:
    http://geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=3ac c1351f7aa1563a017c39513af8358&threadid=22196&g t;


    Read down a ways to see where he comes into the thread - he actually posts defending his site.

  5. Re:Now that we know where he lives... by hyperstation · · Score: 1, Insightful

    if there are a couple hundred million people who would actually *kill* a human being for sending them junk email, then this world really is going to hell....

  6. Re:Samford's rights being violated? by Rogerborg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >He actually stopped spamming people, that means we won.

    But, your Honour, I stopped burgling people after I made enough money to buy myself a stable of hookers. Justice has been done!

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