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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. Re:Did you bother to read the article? by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Apart from stealing a load of bandwidth"

    Alright, but $100 per message is simply too much.

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    Filthy, filthy copyrapists!