Facebook has won $873m law suit against Canadian spammer

One of the most popular social networks Facebook has won a law suit against Canadian spammer who was sending "sexually explicit" messages to the network users on behalf of the members whose accounts he had hacked. Now Adam Guerbuez, a resident of Montreal is ordered to pay $873m to Facebook owners. According to Jeremy Fogel, the US District Judge the fine has so high because Guerbuez has violated the US federal CAN-SPAM Act. Adam Guerbuez, who runs Atlantis Blue Capital and Ballervision.com was also restricted to use the prominent social networking site. During his activity Guerbuez has sent more than 4 million junk messages.

Despite such a brilliant victory the popular site will hardly manage to get such a large amount the analysts say. "It's unlikely that Geurbez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them (though we will certainly collect everything we can). But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users," said Max Kelly, Facebook's director of security, in a blog posting.

It was not the first time when the social networking site has won such suit. Earlier this year another giant MySpace has won a $230m judgment against notorious junk mailer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace and Walter Rines. However, the Facebook ruling is the highest payout ever ordered under the CAN-SPAM Act, reports docs.justia.com.