Facebook Spammer Awarded The Death Penalty

by Jason Wilk on November 24, 2008

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  • On Friday, Facebook was awarded $873 million in damages against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital under the CAN-SPAM act for mass-spamming the Facebook ecosystem.
  • Facebook most likely will never see most of this money, so the judge placed further restrictrions on the culprates. The judge has issued a permanent injunction against “using or accessing, whether directly or indirectly, Facebook’s data, information, computers, computer systems, computer networks, or Facebook user’s accounts, information or profiles for any reason whatsoever.”
  • The injunction is a joke. I guarantee the spamming was resulting in a low to nothing conversion rate on whatever credit scam they were running at Atlantis Capital. The judge should have placed an injunction against all forms of online advertising for one year. That includes AdWords, Email blasts, Facebook ads, MySpace ads, etc. Spam should not be taken lightly in this day and age. We really just need one spammer to get the death penalty. What’s a little capital punishment to save the world? I’m kidding, but when does the spam stop?

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