{"id":836,"date":"2009-10-30T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2009-10-30T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:18:56","slug":"does-facebook-getting-money-from-a-spammer-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Does Facebook Getting Money from a Spammer help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26\" title=\"Cybercrime\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/cybercrime.jpg\" alt=\"Cybercrime\" width=\"96\" height=\"132\" \/>As many will have seen, Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/global-cio\/security\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221400140\">won a court judgment<\/a> today for $711 million from well-known spammer Sanford Wallace.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always nice when a spammer gets told &#8220;stop that&#8221;, but as bad as some people might think Wallace is, he is a walk in the park compared to the real villains out there.\u00a0 They are faceless, nameless, thugs who want to steal your money, your identity, and whatever else they think they can take from you and your family.\u00a0 They have no scruples and cannot be easily traced.\u00a0 The occasional bust makes the news across the world, which is one way of knowing that these miscreants are hard to find.\u00a0 The other way is that your mailbox is still collecting spam, some of it dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many will have seen, Facebook won a court judgment today for $711 million from well-known spammer Sanford Wallace.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always nice when a spammer gets told &#8220;stop that&#8221;, but as bad as some people might think Wallace is, he is a walk in the park compared to the real villains out there.\u00a0 They are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Facebook Getting Money from a Spammer help?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,9],"tags":[289,222,288,102],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-security","tag-court","tag-facebook","tag-malware","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}