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Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million

Posted by Soulskill on from the take-a-check? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook has been awarded $360,500,000 in damages against spammer Philip Porembski, who phished the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Facebook claimed it received more than 8,000 complaints from users as a result of the spam campaign, and more than 4,500 users had deactivated their accounts."

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  1. Awarded damages for what? by lordandmaker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having an easy-to-use phishing platform?

  2. Re:wrong plaintiff by Solandri · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure he has some buddies in Nigeria who can loan him the money.

  3. Re:Well... by Mr.Intel · · Score: 4, Funny

    It depends on how it's denominated. $1 bills weigh about 1 gram, which is about 0.0022 pounds. $360 million in $1 bills therefore is about 792,000 pounds.

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