Facebook gets $711 million damages in anti-spam case
30 October 2009
Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million (430 million pounds) in damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace, court documents show.
Wallace did not oppose the motion or appear at the hearing on September 18, 2009, according to a filing on Thursday in a San Jose, California federal court.
The site filed an anti-spamming case against Wallace in February for accessing people's Facebook accounts without their permission and sending phoney mail and posts to the individuals' public message wall, the company said in a blog post.
"While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent," Facebook said in a blog post.
The case is In re Facebook Inc. vs. Sanford Wallace, et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. C 09-798 JF.
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