Facebook $uperpokes Sex Spammer
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judge has whacked a spammer for hacking into Facebook and sending sexually explicit messages to the social network’s members.
Friday, federal Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded Facebook $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital. According to the social network, it is the largest award ever under the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM).
According to Max Kelly, Facebook’s director of security, the company doesn’t expect to ever collect the money but believes it will be a powerful deterent to anyone who messes with the company or its users.
“Everyone who participates constructively in Facebook should feel confident that we are fighting hard to protect you against spam and other online nuisances,” Kelly blogs. “We will continue to invest in this area by improving our technical safeguards and devoting significant resources to finding, exposing and prosecuting the sources of spam attacks.”
In May, Myspace won a $230 million spamming judgement against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines.
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