Spammer: Be Careful to Send Spam on Facebook, Will be 1.77 Billion in Fines

Yesterday, California courts ordered Sanford Wallace to pay compensation of U.S. $ 177 million or approximately Rp1, 77 trillion to Facebook because it proved to bombard the site with junk mail.

Wallace was known as ‘Spam King’ because he often bombarded websites with junk mail or wall posts to the Facebook members account without permission. This has damaged assessed Facebook site. “We won again in the battle against spammers,” the statement Facebook.

Jeremy Fogel, District Court of California, also bars Wallace and anyone who affiliated with Wallace to access Facebook. Wallace is also preparing to jail for this was not the first time he did.

Wallace who lives in Las Vegas have been involved in the same case with other online companies. In May 2008, MySpace won a lawsuit for U.S. $ 230 million, while in 2006, the U.S. Trade Commission fined U.S. $ 4 million for sending pop-up ads are commonly known as spyware.

In the other hand, Facebook, in November 2008, won a U.S. $ 873 million against Guerbuez Adam and his business partner in Atlantis Blue Capital for Facebook members bombarded with messages that contain pornography.