Facebook wins massive spam suit

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"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."
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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
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