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Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit
news.cnet.com - 10/30/2009
Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit
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Facebook was awarded $711 million in a judgment Thursday against self-described "spam king" Sanford Wallace. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook's application for a default judgment against Wallace for violating the ...
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
techcrunch.com - 11/2/2009
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
— techcrunch.com — Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of... dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long enough ... (more) Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell

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blog.facebook.com - 10/29/2009
Improving Transparency Around Privacy
— blog.facebook.com — Starting today, Facebook's privacy policy is available for your review and comment. This is the next step... in our ongoing effort to run Facebook in an open and transparent way... (more) Improving Transparency Around Privacy

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developers.facebook.com - 10/29/2009
Facebook Platform: A Roadmap for the Future
— developers.facebook.com — At Facebook, we focus on providing our developer community with simple building blocks to speed inn...... (more) Facebook Platform: A Roadmap for the Future

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Facebook beats the 'spam king'
ZDNet News - News Page One — ... the matter to the US Attorney's Office for prosecution of criminal contempt. "The record demonstrates that Wallace wilfully violated the statutes in question with blatant disregard for the rights of Facebook and the thousands of Facebook users whose accounts were compromised by his conduct," Fogel wrote in his judgement order, which also permanently prohibits Wallace from accessing the Facebook website or creating a Facebook account, among other restrictions. For more, read " Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit on CNET News.

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TechBlog — ... - AT&T says it knows what it's doing. • Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit - In judgment against self-described "spam king" Sanford Wallace. Will this guy ever learn? • ...

Facebook Wins $711 Million In Lawsuit Against Sanford Wallace
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... Facebook filed a lawsuit against Sanford “Spamford” Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw over spam messages being sent on their social network. The claim was made under the CAN-SPAM Act which bans false and misleading marketing e-mails. The U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Facebook. ...

Confessions of a Facebook Spammer; Starting Your Own Category
Inc.com — ... How Facebook spam works. Facebook just won a $711 million lawsuit against an email marketer who had operated a spam scam on the social network. But scams are still endemic on the social network, according to a guest post on TechCrunch. "The underlying premise of all the advertising techniques we've discussed so far is that trickery is profitable," ...

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Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Anti-Spam Lawsuit
mashable.com 10/30/2009 — Back in March, Facebook won an injunction against three spammers who sent unwanted messages and made abusive wall posts on the site. The temporary restraining order placed criminal consequences on their continuing actions, but the legal battle ...
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Facebook Sues Spammer; Wins $711 Million [CAN-SPAM] — Consumerist
Facebook won $711 million in a lawsuit against a notorious spammer. Don't cheer too hard, though. The same spampresario owes MySpace $234 million for the same thing. Sanford Wallace, the man they sued, has been spamming people for as long as the Web has existed, and before that sent junk ...
Facebook Finally Strikes It Rich -- in Court — Fast Company - Technology
Three imbeciles who exploited stolen Facebook accounts to send spam were fined $711 million in damages on Thursday, payable to Facebook. Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian, and Scott Shaw allegedly stole login credentials for Facebook accounts and used them to propagate a spam and phishing ...
Is Facebook's $711M Spam Award Just Monopoly Money? — E-Commerce Times
Social networking site Facebook has been awarded US$711 million in damages from prolific spammer and social network scammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding its users with spam, Facebook attorney Sam O'Rourke reported in a blog post. Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court in Northern ...
Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case — Slashdot
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook is on a never-before-seen legal rampage against high profile internet spammers. Today Facebook was awarded yet another nine-figure settlement, this time for over $700 million. Facebook also has a criminal contempt case on Wallace, which means a high ...
Facebook Spammer Has to Pay $711 Million, Your Annoying 'Friends' Still Free to Poke You [Facebook] — Gizmodo
"Spam King" Sanford Wallace was just ordered to pay $711 million in damages in a case about him spamming the hell out of Facebook users. Meanwhile, your idiot friends are still zombie biting you. While I'm all about stopping professional spammers, I find it amusing that this case revolved ...
Facebook Scammer Has to Pay $711 Million, Your Annoying 'Friends' Still Free to Poke You [Facebook] — Gizmodo
"Spam King" Sanford Wallace was just ordered to pay $711 million in damages in a case about him spamming the hell out of Facebook users. Meanwhile, your idiot friends are still zombie biting you. While I'm all about stopping professional spammers, I find it amusing that this case revolved ...
Facebook Wins Another Mega-Million Anti-Spam Case — Maximum PC all RSS Feed
If only spammers had the dough to pay their court-appointed fines, Facebook could make a full-time living in the courtroom. The social networking site slapped Internet marketer Sanford Wallace with a lawsuit alleging he was accessing Facebook accounts without permission and posting fake ...
Web Marketer Ordered to Pay Facebook $711 Million in Anti-Spam Case — NYT > Technology
Facebook sued Sanford Wallace for accessing users’ accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages.
Facebook Gets $711 Million in Spam Case — AppScout
Surely by now we're all aware that Facebook hasn't had the easiest time properly monetizing itself, in spite of its own astronomical success. Massive payoffs from spam kingpins seem like a pretty solid method, however. The social networking site was recently awarding a staggering $711.2 million ...
Facebook Wins $711M in Spam Suit — Digital Trends
Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
Facebook Wins $711 Million From Spammer — Silicon Alley Insider
Spam Facebook at your own peril. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Five People Sue Facebook For Being Too Facebook-y Facebook: Please Let Us Spam Your Email Box Facebook’s Anti-Spam Campaign Claims An Innocent Victim
Judge Cans “Spamford” — Technologizer
Today, a California court awarded Facebook $711 million in civil damages against Sanford Wallace , the notorious sell proclaimed “spam king” who is also known by the derisive nickname ‘Spamford.’ The court found Wallace guilty of violating the CAN-SPAM act, and he could ...
Judge Awards Facebook $711 Million in Damages in Spam King Case — Inside Facebook
Earlier this year, we first covered the news that Facebook had filed a federal lawsuit against famed “Spam King” Sanford Wallace for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the California Anti-Phishing Act. Today, Facebook says the company won the case and was awarded ...
Facebook Continues to Can Spam — Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
As far as Internet business goes it would be hard to imagine someone having a worse year than Sanford Wallace. Who you ask? Mr. Wallace is the Spam King who had a judgment made against him last year in a suit filed by MySpace for $234 million. Now add Facebook to the list of people who ...
Facebook Fights App Spam, Gives Games Its Own Dashboard Link — TechCrunch
Following its meeting with developers yesterday, Facebook announced some change s to people’s homepages today. As expected , one of the biggest changes is an attempt to fight application spam. Notifications from apps that you sign up for are being curtailed so that you can opt to ...
New Facebook rules make app spam a thing of the past — Download Squad
Facebook's making some big changes around its application platform , particularly concerning how much access apps have to a user's activity stream and notifications. If you're a Facebook user who hates app spam, that's good news for you. It's terrible news for developers, though, because ...