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Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion

Posted by timothy on 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 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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  1. Now he's sending out spam.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Asking for help paying for it!

    1. Re:Now he's sending out spam.. by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      You think that Nigerian prince will help him out?

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    2. Re:Now he's sending out spam.. by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 4, Funny

      Have any better ideas? Hm, actually that's not a bad idea... What else does the guy have to lose?

      Another billion dollars, perhaps.

      Maybe we should tell the RIAA that he's been embedding Britney Spears songs as background music in his spam.

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  2. who knew? by Wingman+5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who knew that Billion was spelled differently in Canada, maybe it is like color and colour.

    1. Re:who knew? by md65536 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought you spelt it "bouillon"?

      Ah oui, but jusque en Kebecke. Here en le Montreal we often say "Ehpardonez moi, allez vous un bouillon dolare? Non? Moi aussi."

  3. He's not very worried by Warll · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry that only works out to about twelve Canadian dollars.

  4. Re:um by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who always finds it oddly disturbing that the acronym for Supreme Court of the United States looks an awful lot like "scrotum?"

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  5. Re:Priorities.. by gmhowell · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths, but a spammer that didn't cause any physical harm or death is fined a billion dollars. Let's get some file sharers fined for more than the GDP of several small nations combined too, for good measure.

    I hate spammers, but you're telling me that a few million spam messages are worth more than several LIVES and ILLEGAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMANS?

    Absolutely! They found a practical use for lawyers! A discovery of that magnitude is worth a Nobel or two.

    He said 'experimentation on humans'.

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  6. Re:Priorities.. by md65536 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny..a company was just fined a few million for (illegal) human experimentation of their bone anchoring glue which resulted in several deaths ...

    Oh come on... it's ONLY their bone anchoring glue. I mean, do we even need that? They could have died from anything. Loose bone syndrome. Wandering pelvis. Smoking. Boneitis. All of these are natural causes.

  7. Re:um by dakameleon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two uneven halves make it up, they're generally wrinkly and balding, and tend to hang around not doing anything much useful most of the time.

    Not too far off the mark?

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