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Cyber Promotions

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Cyber Promotions
A Philadelphia-based company that specialized in mass mailings of unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). Founder Sanford Wallace proudly called himself the "King of Spam." The company sent out millions of e-mail advertisements daily and seemed to be enjoying a thriving business until several ISPs won their lawsuits against it. See spam.


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Stanford Wallace and the company called Cyber Promotions were placed in a state of bankruptcy for their spamming activities in 1998 Laurence Carter, a famous attorney who used spam as a form of advertising was disbarred in 1997 for his use of UBE?
In the 1990s he progressed from circulating fax messages to sending internet spam and rose to prominence as the head of Philadelphia-based spam giant Cyber Promotions.
71) Unfortunately, the legal bases for America Online's countersuit against Cyber Promotions were rooted in claims of action that would not be available to a private citizen who is interested in eliminating the recurrence of SPAM and pop-up advertisements on her personal computer.
 
 
 
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