Facebook wins round against phishing spammer
Washington Times
"Today, [Facebook] won an important battle in our ongoing fight against spam. "A court in San Jose, California awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace, a spammer who accessed people’s accounts without their permissi...
Spammer Ordered to Pay Facebook $711 Million
CIO
Sanford Wallace was sued by Facebook in February along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for allegedly obtaining the login credentials for accounts. The accounts were then used to send spam to those users' friends starting around Novembe...
Facebook Wins $711 Million Suit Against Infamous Internet Spammer
ABC News
ABC's Whitney Lloyd reports from New York: A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against an infamous internet spammer who bombarded the social networking site with junk messages and phony wall posts. Sanford Wallace, a...
Facebook awarded $711 million in case against spammer
Los Angeles Times
Facebook Inc., the world's most popular social-networking Web site, was awarded $711 million in damages against a spammer who gained access to users' accounts and sent phony messages. Sanford Wallace sent unsolicited mass e-mails to users, ...
Facebook wins $711 million anti-spam lawsuit. But social spam is here to stay.
e-Consultancy
By now everyone online is accustomed to receiving and filtering spam in their inboxes, but recent spamming attacks on social sites like Facebook have caught many by surprise. Facebook is hoping to change all that, with a court win this week...
Spammer Ordered to Pay Facebook USD 711 Million
Pravda
A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King."
Judge: Spammer Owes Facebook $711 Million
OfficialWire
A U.S. judge says an Internet marketer known as the "Spam King" must pay the Facebook Web site $711 million in damages. U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled in San Jose, Calif.,
Facebook Wins $711 Million Judgment Against Notorious Spammer
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New York, NY (AHN) - Facebook, the social networking giant, has struck back at famous spammer Standford Wallace, securing a $711 million judgment in court. A court found Wallace had accessed Facebook accounts without permission and posted m...
Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711 million
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages from a convicted spammer on Thursday, but the social networking site is hoping a separate criminal action will eventually send him to jail.
Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711 million
San Francisco Chronicle
A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King." The Palo Alto company clai...
App Store spammer Khalid Shaikh indicted by FBI
TECH.BLORGE.com
The same lovely fellow who got himself banned from the iPhone App Store for creating more than 900 mostly useless applications, as well as over 100 complaints from competitors about stolen software code, is back in the news. This time aroun...
Facebook spammer has to pay big money
Help Net Security
Facebook has won the court battle against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who obtained access to people's accounts and used them to spam their friends. He is supposed to pay back $711 million, but even Facebook know this will never hap...
Judge: Spammer owes Facebook $711 million
UPI
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge says an Internet marketer known as the "Spam King" must pay the Facebook Web site $711 million in damages.
