Facebook wins $870 million from spammer

Not planning to distribute it among those who were spammed

Facebook wins $870 million from spammer
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25 November 2008 13:59 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

A spammer has been ordered to pay social networking site Facebook, over $870 million in damages for bombarding the site's members with millions of emails about sex products and drugs.

Canadian Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, must pay Facebook $436.2 million dollars in statutory damages and another $436.2 million dollars in aggravated statutory damages.

Guerbuez violated the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act brought into law in 2003.

The largest award to date under the Act, it has been welcomed by Facebook with Max Kelly, the site's director of security, calling it an, "important victory for our users - and against spam and those who create it".

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  • And to whom does this ridiculous sum of money go to? Any of the users who got spammmed? Unlikely, is my own answer... Posted by hippyneil, UK
  • Oh come on, just because the article's author mentionned the money was not to be given to some spammed people doesn't mean it IS an indignation !
    If Facebook were a paying site, then yes, I would understand. But it's not. And anyways, most of the time, when someone receives spam (say, from a porn site), it's because he HAS BEEN visiting a site of this sort in the past and was inlucky enough that someone got enough info to contact him. I don't know how this one case went, but I suspect Facebook was a means but in no way the cause.
    Is there someone who got his life ruined by this spam out there ? Let me know if it's the case, but I do not believe so.     Posted by Coeus, Canada

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