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money.cnn.com - 27 days ago
Facebook spammer ordered to pay $711 million
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the Web site with junk messages."We won another battle in the fight against spam," said Facebook, which announced the Oct. 29 ruling on its Web site on Friday. ...
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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 — 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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Facebook Scammer Has to Pay $711 Million, Your Annoying 'Friends' Still Free to Poke You [Facebook]
Gizmodo — ... biting you. While I'm all about stopping professional spammers, I find it amusing that this case revolved around Facebook. At this point, a good 75% of the messages I receive from that damned site are unwanted and annoying. Invites to shit from people I don't know, annoying app pings and all the rest of it. Hell, it's almost like Facebook is designed to send you annoying messages. That's the whole point! But yeah, anyways, nice work nailin' the Spam King, guys. [CNNMoney] ...

Facebook Spammer Has to Pay $711 Million, Your Annoying 'Friends' Still Free to Poke You [Facebook]
Gizmodo — ... biting you. While I'm all about stopping professional spammers, I find it amusing that this case revolved around Facebook. At this point, a good 75% of the messages I receive from that damned site are unwanted and annoying. Invites to shit from people I don't know, annoying app pings and all the rest of it. Hell, it's almost like Facebook is designed to send you annoying messages. That's the whole point! But yeah, anyways, nice work nailin' the Spam King, guys. [CNNMoney] ...

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GeekSugar — ... Sprint has just introduced another Android handset, the Samsung Moment, which goes on sale today for $170 after mail-in rebates - Engadget Facebook spammer, Sanford Wallace, has been ordered to pay $711 million in damages to Facebook - CNN Money Texting and driving has now been banned in New York state - MobileCrunch This Greasemonkey script will help you remove the clutter from your Gmail - Lifehacker Gizmodo gets their hands on the BlackBerry Storm2 - ...

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A U.S. judge says an Internet marketer known as the Spam King must pay the Facebook Web site $711 million in damages.
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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 ...
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"Facebook said the order should serve as a strong deterrent against spammers."
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Facebook has been awarded $711 million in damages against spammer Sanford Wallace for bombarding the social networking with phony wall posts and messages. The so-called “Spam King” was sued in February along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for allegedly obtaining login credentials for other ...
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Facebook won a victory against spammers yesterday when a judge in California awarded the site some $711 million in damages in relation to an anti-spam case. - Facebook scored a win against a notorious spammer in federal court. The social networking site was awarded $711 million in damages Oct. ...
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Spammers may want to steer clear of Facebook in the future.  Late yesterday, a representative of the social network's legal team announced that it was awarded $711 million in damages as a result of a case against Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. As Sam O'Rourke explained on the ...
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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.
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Facebook said Thursday that a federal court in San Jose has awarded the company $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against famed online marketer Sanford Wallace, who has been called the...
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Facebook has won a second big judgment against a spammer. This time around, the social network has been awarded $711 million in damages against a man who used a phishing scheme to get access to user accounts and then sent out fake Wall posts and messages, according to Facebook’s PR team. ...
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Analysts expect that this week's federal court decision to fine a spammer $711 million for attacking Facebook will prompt cybercriminals to develop more sophisticated ways to avoid detection when attacking social networks.
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