Facebook Awarded $873 Million in Lawsuit vs Spammer!

It seems as though Facebook.com just won a lawsuit they had filed against a huge spammer that has been taking advantage of facebook and its users. This user and his company “Atlantis Blue Capital” have been sending out spam messages through the message system that facebook has for its users, but he has used it to send out mass spam messages to users to link to his sites where he was obviously trying to make some easy money with. Here is a statement from Facebook:

Does Facebook expect to quickly collect $873 million and share the proceeds in some way with our users? Alas, no. It’s unlikely that Geurbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them (though we will certainly collect everything we can). But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users.

Just earlier this year Facebook’s rival won a similar case which landed them $230 million against the so-called “Spam King” under similar circumstances. (You can read the arcticle about it here!) Besides the huge chunk of money that he is now required to pay to Facebook, this person is also banned for life from the website and officials are hoping that this decision will help in deter other people / companies from trying the same thing. But given the difficulty of enforcing such laws around the world, its likely that spam will continue and they will just be coming from other parts of the world. (So you can expect some really bad english to be involved!)

Lastly here is a few examples of the messages he was sending out through facebook (with the URLs changed of course!)

Ringtones:

I finally found the best source out there for all the latest ringtines for my phone at http://www.spam THey dont sound bad like the ones from my actual phone company, these are 100 times better and they have thousands and thousands of ringers to choose from and when you use them the first time you get 20 free ringtones. Stop paying so much for your ringtones,don’t be a sucker, get them from my place, http://www.spam

Male Enhancement:

remember i told you about those pills that mike and his brother have been taking that made their pricks larger then life? well i finally got more info on whats been happening. mike have been taking the pills now for 6 months from http://www.spam and his brother about 3 months now. yesterday i found out that you know who has been taking them for the longest time now too, that blew me away. so the secret is out, these enlarge pills really work and more people then i realized are taking them daily. i am thinking of getting some for a certain someone today, they guarentee them 100 percent that they will work or every cent you paid back to you. http://www.spam

Marijuana:

hey, check this out! you know smoking bud? well there is this site http://www.spam that sells super potent legal bud, yes legal herbal bud for sale online, it doesn’t show up in drug tests or anything either, i started selling this stuff too and am making a killing, they ship it to you discreetly and it’s 100 percent money back guaranteed, this is the site http://www.spam it’s not illegal, but hurry up before they ban it in the states.

So there you have it, I’m sure a good many of the people who read this have probably seen these messages or others very similar to these but the good news is you won’t be seeing them anymore due to the concequences of this lawsuit that this company faces. So we will now get alittle time off from these types of messages until another user / company takes their place in the hopes of finding some loophole to make some quick cash! So be careful out there and watch what you click on!