:wt: FaceBook spammer fined $1 Billion

[drstew]

Hey guys I was just reading this article and thought some people might be interested if they hadn't seen it already.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-facebook-spammer-fined-almost-1-billion-under-can-spam.html

 

[patriotofgod]

Lol, 1 billion? I am sure they will be getting that.

 

[drstew]

Lol, 1 billion? I am sure they will be getting that.

Hehe yeh exactly no fucken chance the dude will even have that. I don't know why they even bother, in the end it will probably cost them more in court fees than what they will get back

 

[manudevil20]

Yeah this was posted earlier. http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...million-verdict-against-faceb00k-spammer.html

 

[knowledgeblast]

Clearly, they wanted to make an example of him to stop any future spammers from even thinking about it. I don't think they didi it for the money.

Cheers

 

[peter1988]

wow..1billion dollars...that is huge...it is a very HEAVY Fined

 

[Sanitarium]

So he did some phishing too?

1 billion is just too cruel, i think proper punishment would be to strap him with a special bomb that detonates whenever he's near a computer.

BOOM!

 

[the_demon]

A billion is a bit much but just goes to show how much companies are willing to go to stop spammers. I also wound up reading a bunch of the links articles i think around 6 in total. Anyways, thanks for sharing that link. very interesting.

 

[patriotofgod]

Haha, everyone knows corporations are like asswipe in this industry

 

[PanamaHosting]

" You can stop one of us, but you cant stop us all "

 

[drstew]

Yeh I wonder how they caught him, would have thought he was using protection. Always remember to use protection when sleeping with FB

 

[r-webb-k]

damn 1 billion den again u neva kno that spammer probably made more than that spamming facebook

 

[ajeeyunz]

damn! that is so much ! I can live happily in my country if I get that much of money!

 

[jonny110]

Damn! I'll have to open my own Facebook style website and get people to spam it and then sue their ass. Fockin easy money if you ask me.

 

[thanhclix]

873 million - my dream amount of money.
Facebook scares all the blackhatter out there .

 

[Celtik]

Yes, this is the exact reason I never got/will get into facebook marketng, at least not illegally lol

 

[spud--1]

What a joke - awarded 1 billion for having a few messages posted on your site yet soldiers who have lost limbs etc get a pittance, nobody seems to have any common sense any more :banghead:

 

[manudevil20]

Yeah thats just a little bit too much money..

 

[fusilli_jerry89]

well if you wanna keep doing it and not get sued, just always do less than the most fiendish spammer. Or just be smarter.

 

[heiny]

What if you do it outside US? Say China, Russia, Cayman's, Virgin Islands......Facebook will have a hard time trying to pin it on you, yeh??