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Facebook wins massive spam suit
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:25:51 +0200 (EET)
"Facebook won a US$873 million judgment in a case against a spammer in one of the largest awards yet for a suit filed under the CAN-SPAM Act. The suit charged Adam Guerbuez, Atlantis Blue Capital and 25 other unnamed people for falsely obtaining login information for Facebook users and then sending spam to those users' friends. Guerbuez and the others set up fake Facebook pages where users would enter their login details, which the spammers could then steal, Facebook charged in the suit. During the months of March and April this year, the spammers used the stolen login names to send more than 4 million spam messages over Facebook's network, the social-networking site alleged." --clip-- More at http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,154429/printable.html Facebook Blog coverage at Making Facebook Safe Against Spam: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=40218392130 Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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