In a January 27, 2011 update on the facebook security pages, they announced "a federal court awarded Facebook $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issued a permanent injunction kicking a known spammer, Philip Porembski, off Facebook for good."
Sophos reports Porembski, who ran a firm called PP Web Services, was alleged to have obtained the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users, and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Some of the spam messages directed users to phishing websites that stole usernames and passwords, while others werer affiliate links.
Facebook claimed that it received more than 8000 complaints from users as a result of the spam campaign, and more than 4500 users had deactivated their accounts.
This is a followup of an announcement of three separate complaints, in which Facebook allege that Steven Richter, Jason Swan, and Max Bounty, Inc. used Facebook to offer enticing, but non-existent products and services.
They go to review how Facebook holds the record for the two largest judgments in the history of the CAN-SPAM Act - an $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital and a $711 million judgment against Sanford Wallace.
There's a certain prestige in having a $300 million judgement brought against you, rather than just everything you own.
Sophos reports Porembski, who ran a firm called PP Web Services, was alleged to have obtained the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users, and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Some of the spam messages directed users to phishing websites that stole usernames and passwords, while others werer affiliate links.
Facebook claimed that it received more than 8000 complaints from users as a result of the spam campaign, and more than 4500 users had deactivated their accounts.
This is a followup of an announcement of three separate complaints, in which Facebook allege that Steven Richter, Jason Swan, and Max Bounty, Inc. used Facebook to offer enticing, but non-existent products and services.
They go to review how Facebook holds the record for the two largest judgments in the history of the CAN-SPAM Act - an $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital and a $711 million judgment against Sanford Wallace.
There's a certain prestige in having a $300 million judgement brought against you, rather than just everything you own.
