Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million

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."

Comments

Re:wrong plaintiff

[gorzek]

They won't pass along any of it because they're not likely to get an appreciable portion of that sum from the defendant. Do you really think the average spammer has $360M stashed away somewhere?

Re:wrong plaintiff

[Stregano]

I am pretty sure your user information has already been sold by Facebook and I am also pretty sure you will get as much of that 3k that you got for FB selling your information.