Facebook spammer had to pay $711 million

A  Las Vegas resident ,Sanford Wallace, is known "Spam King" due to his big spamming. He could access to the account of Facebook members without their permission and sent them phony wall posts and messages. A California judge convicted him for bombarding the web site with junk messages and awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace!

"We won another battle in the fight against spam," said Facebook, which announced the Oct. 29 ruling on its Web site on Friday.

Previously, Sanford was successfully sued by other online companies too;

In May ,2008, MySpace won a $230 million against Wallace for sending junk messages.

Wallace was also fined $4 million by the Federal Trade Commission in 2006 for his excessive pop-up ads.
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