Right now this is strictly a rumor, but I've been hearing from a lot of very well connected people within the industry that in the last hour or so myspace is in the process of suing spammers and those hacker/phisher kiddies. If this is in fact true, we are the first to report it, and I'm sure every spammer/hacker kiddie is heading for the hills! Take that you spammers! :ak:
One of the reasons it's a rumor and not a fact is because I haven't heard of any confirmations that this is true or not. The only thing I have just noticed is that ScreenNameForum.com has closed and permanently deleted it's myspace account selling section, which unfortunately without the owner's knowledge was being used by spammers and hacker kids to sell their stolen accounts and whatnot. Good thing they cracked down too, but I do feel for the owners for not realizing what was going on this whole time! Hopefully they won't get sued either.
Another rumor that flew my way is that one of the affiliate manager leaders at affiliate network's name removed until confirmed -- AM's name removed until confirmed -- is being sued by myspace personally for trying to recruit users who are using hacked accounts to spam myspace with offers for crap like ringtones and email collection sites. Not sure how true that is, but that's the word I've been hearing over and over. Maybe he'll come around here and tell us what really happened if this isn't true.
Alright, just want to point out that everything except for that forum closing that section is a rumor, that forum story is the only confirmed fact I have seen or heard so far. If anyone has anything to add, or has heard of any rumor confirmations being a fact, do let us know!
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I removed the name of the manager in question and the network he is part of until the story is confirmed.
