Facebook awarded $711 million in case against spammer
Bloomberg News
6:45 AM PDT, October 30, 2009
Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site, was awarded $711 million in damages against a spammer who gained access to users' accounts and sent phony messages.
Sanford Wallace sent unsolicited mass e-mails to users, tricking many of them into divulging their login information or redirecting them to Web sites that paid him for each visit, Facebook claimed.
"Wallace willfully violated the statutes in question with blatant disregard for the rights of Facebook users whose accounts were compromised by his conduct," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose said yesterday in a court order.
The company asked for more than $7 billion in damages in the case, filed in February. It doesn't expect to receive a "vast majority" of the award against Wallace, according to a blog posting on the company's Web site.
(More here.)
6:45 AM PDT, October 30, 2009
Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site, was awarded $711 million in damages against a spammer who gained access to users' accounts and sent phony messages.
Sanford Wallace sent unsolicited mass e-mails to users, tricking many of them into divulging their login information or redirecting them to Web sites that paid him for each visit, Facebook claimed.
"Wallace willfully violated the statutes in question with blatant disregard for the rights of Facebook users whose accounts were compromised by his conduct," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose said yesterday in a court order.
The company asked for more than $7 billion in damages in the case, filed in February. It doesn't expect to receive a "vast majority" of the award against Wallace, according to a blog posting on the company's Web site.
(More here.)
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