A Washington-state-based marketing firm that made headlines earlier this month when a known security researcher alleged it was operating a massive, illegal spam operation involving 1.4 billion email accounts filed a lawsuit Tuesday contending it was actually the...
Here are the details on the inner workings of a massive, illegal spam operation. The situation presents a tangible threat to online privacy and security as it involves a database of 1.4 billion email accounts combined with real names, user IP addresses, and often...
This article is an excerpt from an article published by CSOOnline. It deals specifically with how spammers trick advertisers into thinking they have bought display media when, in fact, they have not. Most of the contracts start off as display advertising, meaning an...
With Facebook admitting to numerous errors in its advertising metrics, news that a group of Russian criminals are making between $3 million and $5 million every day in a brazen attack on the advertising market appears prescient. Amid headlines of "fake news" and...
Tapstone aka Tapstone.com, Tapstone Holdings, LLC,, and Tapstone Media, with Jonathan David listed as CEO/Founder, is used as an example here because Telic Interactive was listed as a spammer. Jonathan David and Jeff Morgan were officers at Telic...
Tapstone, Tapstone.com, Tapstone Holdings, LLC,, and Tapstone Media, with Jonathan David listed as CEO/Founder, is used as an example here because Telic Interactive was listed as a spammer. Jonathan David and Jeff Morgan were officers at Telic...
Who are the likely key players? Jeff Morgan, Jeffrey P. Morgan, Alison G. Morgan, The Morgan Family Trust, Kim Reed Perell, Atul Patel, Qayed Shareef, John B. Strong, Jim Waltz, Greg Templeton, Sal Aziz, and Norman Brodeur, among others. Can you shed a little light...
The infamous 'Spam King' who pioneered junk email has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for sending more than 27million unwanted messages to Facebook users. Sanford Wallace, 47, from Las Vegas, had also disobeyed a court order banning him from the same social media...
Petr Pacas, Peter Pacas, Pete Pacas, an employee of Adconion Direct, with Kim Reed Perell as CEO, has been charged with crimes by California Federal Prosecutors. I wonder how his family feels about this. Are they "stoked"? There's a reason they don't put trailer...
The idea of a unicorn – a company valued by venture capitalists at over a billion dollars – is so seductive that some whole industries use it as a benchmark without understanding its irony. The mania of Silicon Valley is so great that the venture capital firms even...