Facebook Wins Big Case And $873M Against Spammer

Next, can we go after the Facebook “friend” that’s always trying to bite and turn ya into a zombie? Superpoke this.

Social networking sites have become a medium in which spammers are thriving nowadays and this is not a good thing, as such profiles contain valuable personal information and people care about them very much.

Facebook has just won a lawsuit against a Canadian spammer, who used different techniques to gain access to different Facebook profiles in order to send all types of spam messages.

Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, who runs Atlantis Blue Capital and Ballervision.com must pay $873m to the social networking site after sending “sexually explicit” messages and used different phishingtechniques.

- from here