Quebec spammer must pay Facebook $873M

[silentg]

A Quebec man has been ordered to pay Facebook $873 million US after he bombarded its members with explicit spam messages. Read the full article here.

I wonder if all those who got these explicit messages will get a share of the money.

[DomainMagnate]

wow thats a lot of spam money! I get a bunch of random annoying FB requests, but never anything explicit like that. Guess he didn't use proxies and offshore Hosting accounts like the mail spammers do, so he was easy to trace.

[draggar]

I wonder if all those who got these explicit messages will get a share of the money.

The article says he filed for bankruptcy, I'm assuming after the ruling so if it goes though then no one will get the money.

[Acro]

I don't like fb but I detest spammers. Perhaps he will now learn a lesson.

[Focus]

Judgements like this are so pointless, unfruitful, and ridiculous. What a total waste of time and energy the whole thing is really.

If I had just a penny for every damn spam mail I get sent to my personal email I would be a rich(er) man!

[PokerPie]

So now it is against the law to violate Facebook's terms? This seems a bit over-the-top...

[draggar]

So now it is against the law to violate Facebook's terms? This seems a bit over-the-top...

Well, the issue is that the person was spamming (massive amounts) though Facebook thus causing them to use up more bandwidth and more load on their servers shortening their lives.

It also cost the users time to sift though the spam as well as use up their bandwidth (many ISPs are metered / limited now).

It's like junk faxes - the spammer gets all the benefits while the person being spammed has to flip the bill though time, equipment life, and consumables.

[fab]

Nice sum!

[CureCancer]

The article says he filed for bankruptcy, I'm assuming after the ruling so if it goes though then no one will get the money.

The law for bankruptcy changed in july in Canada, you can no longer go bankrupt 100%, his going to have to pay a minimum of 50% of that money!

[Adam Dicker]

The law for bankruptcy changed in july in Canada, you can no longer go bankrupt 100%, his going to have to pay a minimum of 50% of that money!

Where does it state that? Would be good info to have.

-=DCG=-

[CureCancer]

Where does it state that? Would be good info to have.

-=DCG=-

talk to a credit council, thats how i found out.

[DomainsInc]

talk to a credit council, thats how i found out.

I couldn't find anything about that online. There were changes last July and last September but none saying you have to pay back a certain %.

see: http://www.bankruptcycanada.com/blog...ruptcy-reform/

[stewie]

That amount is a joke... not sure the wealth of this person but I'm sure $200,000-$500,000 would be an amount that would make bankruptcy not such an easy choice.

close to a Billion makes it silly... but if it was a huge company they'd make the fine $50,000 go figure!!!

[katherine]

What do you think about this

Jerome Kerviel, formerly of Societe Generale SA, was convicted this week in France of fraud and sentenced to 3 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $7 billion.

[RTM.net]

So, I doubt this fellow has the financial clout to almost double the Goldman Sachs investment in FB...

Unless he is a secret family heir / member to Kerviel or Madoff.

[DaddyHalbucks]

The spammer should spend some time in jail too.