Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A spammer was fined $870million by Facebook

A Canadian spammer accused of bombarding members of Facebook with unwanted messages has been ordered to pay the social networking site more than $870 million (£580m) in damages.

A judge in San Jose, California, made the ruling against Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital. He ordered Guerbuez to pay $436.2 million dollars in statutory damages and another $436.2 million dollars in aggravated statutory damages for violating the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act.

It is the largest award made to date under the 2003 act, which outlaws "false or misleading" information in the subject or header sections of marketing emails.

Facebook welcomed the ruling. Max Kelly, the site's director of security, called it an "important victory for our users - and against spam and those who create it" which demonstrated how Facebook was "fighting hard" to crack down on "spam and other online nuisances". But in a blog posting he wrote the judgement was more likely to serve as a deterrent than result in a multi-million dollar payment. Facebook took legal action against Guerbuez in August, claiming he had managed to obtain the passwords of Facebook users and was bombarding them with millions of messages about sexual products and drugs. Telegraph

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