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The social network Facebook gets a California court a considerable amount of damages. Sanford Wallace will spend 711 million dollars for his acts of spam.

Earlier this year, Facebook is not immune to spam, was filed in the United States a complaint against a spammer very top flight named Sanford Wallace. A leading expert in his field that earned him the nickname Spamford sweet.

From routine Spamford who was accused of having polluted the social network of users with messages allegedly sent by friends. To do this, dedicated accounts have been created, while others were diverted after the theft of IDs via phishing.

A battle won, not war
Facebook welcomes today's victory, "another battle won against spam." A California court ruled that Spamford Wallace must compensate the social network up a colossal sum of 711 million. There is in fact no good breaking the law SPAM U.S..

For Facebook, this is not a record in such case. In November 2008, Facebook had obtained 873 million dollars from another spammer Canadian nationality. Amounts that will probably never be paid, but may still be the deterrent effect, although ...

Sanford Wallace seems to have gone through the years always with the same passion for spam since it is enjoyed in the 90s, with the time millions of junk mail sent to AOL and CompuServe subscribers. The man founded the marketing firm Cyber Promotions business, and always the idea of attracting Internet users on various sites to be paying based on traffic generated.

So many actions that apply to Sanford Wallace and some associates to be a regular courts. $ 234 million for MySpace, $ 4 million fine for installing spyware on computers ... Spamford the bin is full. But the man could also fall to criminal charges and risk a prison sentence.