Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 05, @11:11PM
from the get-poor-quick-scheme dept.
innocent_white_lamb writes"A man has been fined ONE BEELYUN DOLLARS (yes, really) for sending 4,366,386 spam messages that were posted on Facebook. He was fined $100 for each message, and including punitive damages he now owes $1,068,928,721.46. A ruling by by a US District Court judge in San Jose, California has now been upheld by the Quebec Superior Court (the defendant lives in Montreal)."

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