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Facebook wins the spam lottery
FACEBOOK HAS HIT the spam lottery by having been awarded a $711 million (£430 million) judgment against recidivist spam king Sanford Wallace by a California court.
The court found Wallace guilty of violating the Can-Spam Act by sending false or misleading marketing emails.
"Today a San Jose court awarded Facebook $711m in damages against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who accessed people's accounts without their permission and sent phony Wall posts and messages," said Sam O'Rourke, lead council for litigation and intellectual property at Facebook, in a blog post.
"While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent against these criminals."
The case reached court in March, and Facebook hopes that the court's verdict, judgment award and other punishment meted out to Wallace will mean less spam for its users.
"Most notably, the judge referred Wallace to the US Attorney's Office with a request that Wallace be prosecuted for criminal contempt, which means that, in addition to the judgement, he now faces possible jail time," said O'Rourke.
"This is another important victory in our fight against spam. We will continue to pursue damages against other spammers."
It's not clear whether defendant Wallace has sufficient financial resources to pay Facebook. µ
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Sup spam king, can I borrow a dime?!?! LMFAO, fat slob, mom must be proud!
facebook suing someone for spamming?
Talk about pot and kettle.
no comment on "accessed people's accounts without their permission" part? based on this decision we can sue Facebook for lame security measures.
It no news that apps can post spam on people walls. Not really accessing user accounts.
In lieu of payment, Sanford Wallace--and all like him--should be executed for his crimes.
Again , the American legal system shows just how utterly ridiculous and inhuman it is.
Just what is the point of sending people to jail for hundreds or years fining individuals hundreds of milions of dollars ?
Surely at some point , they will realise that hyper penal punishment , including the death sentance is not a deterant , but just a form of revenge, and it doesn't solve an problems. A punishment has to fit the crime for which it is being executed..in the states, this has gotten totally out of hand.
American legal system = failure
hyper fines as deterrent = failure
despite the silly fines, most spam still originates in the states.
Maybe i should take on Facebook , they are by far the worst spammers i've ever seen !
I happen to know someone who dies recently and they left me 10 billion dollars.
If Wallace wants some, all he has to do is send me his bank details... Then Facebook and I will be happy.