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Facebook spammer ordered to pay $711 million

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 12:52 PM

money.cnn.com said:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the Web site with junk messages.

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

Wallace, who has also been called the "Spam King," accessed Facebook members' accounts without their permission and sent out "phony" Wall posts and messages, the company said.

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The moral of this story? DON'T MESS WITH FACEBOOK. :wacko:
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 01:21 PM

good ****in hate spammers
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 02:11 PM

That is completely stupid. It's just some guy sending out stupid messages that end up in your spam folder? I don't understand what the big deal is. Look at the spam the big companies send out. I think it's a waste of time and money.
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 03:10 PM

Oh no, people can't get to their meaningful wall posts through all the SPAM. How will we ever survive?


Picking up a telephone sounds like a good start to me.
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 03:12 PM

It just shows that now days anyone can get 100's of millions/billions of dollars for any old reason except for something that actually matters. :lol:
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 03:20 PM

View PostEbonykrow, on 04 November 2009 - 04:10 PM, said:

Oh no, people can't get to their meaningful wall posts through all the SPAM. How will we ever survive?


Picking up a telephone sounds like a good start to me.


Right? :lol:
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 03:55 PM

Facebook is spammy to begin with. My feed is always spammed with apps. No matter how many times I block Mafia Wars, somehow, it always finds it's way back. <_<
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Posted 06 November 2009 - 07:18 PM

makes me want to figure out how to get millions from someone or a some company by somthing stupid...like...a sterio company for making the radio turn up so loud that i hurt my ears...its there fault in the end rofl

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Posted 07 November 2009 - 03:32 PM

View PostPinx, on 04 November 2009 - 07:55 AM, said:

Facebook is spammy to begin with. My feed is always spammed with apps. No matter how many times I block Mafia Wars, somehow, it always finds it's way back. Posted Image



Actually, you can block it and it does stay gone... the problem is the people that play it... they junk their own accounts up with it as Wall Posts they've written that have nothing to do with the application itself. To block it completely, you have to block that "friend". I have a couple of friends that started playing that and others got so mad at them they had a create a separate account for their personal pages. LOL.

I'm glad they're pinning people who spam facebook. Why? Because like it or not, Facebook has become a valuable networking tool for business. I've been actively using it to find a job (I've probably gotten more valid job leads from facebook than I have from Monster or other job sites) and I use it to post the jewelry I make and sell. Love or hate social networking, it's here to stay.

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Posted 10 November 2009 - 11:54 PM

View Postconspiracybeliever, on 05 November 2009 - 12:11 AM, said:

That is completely stupid. It's just some guy sending out stupid messages that end up in your spam folder? I don't understand what the big deal is. Look at the spam the big companies send out. I think it's a waste of time and money.





i agree...............it's good he was stopped,but i don't see why face book needs to be awarded $711million dollars for some harmless messages :blink:
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Posted 11 November 2009 - 12:04 AM

View Postcluey, on 10 November 2009 - 11:54 PM, said:

i agree...............it's good he was stopped,but i don't see why face book needs to be awarded $711million dollars for some harmless messages :blink:


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Posted 11 November 2009 - 01:01 AM

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Posted 13 November 2009 - 04:52 AM

That guy's life is pretty bad right about now
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Posted 13 November 2009 - 05:22 PM

Very good judgment...Spammers should not be allowed...
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