Canadian Spammer fine 1 BILLION to Facebook!

[patonb]

Sucker! The guy was nailed for 4 million messages at 200 bucks each!
Court to Montrealer: pay Facebook $1 billion - *Tech & Gadget - MSN CA

****** declared bankrupcy, so he says he doesn't have to pay them. Wonder how much he made from it.

Apperently, Canada has 80% of the spammers....

MONTREAL - Spammers have gotten a stern warning that the Canadian border is no protection from U.S. law.

A Montreal man has been ordered to pay Facebook $1 billion after allegedly plastering its members' online walls with a variety of messages including penis-enlargement ads.

Quebec Superior Court upheld a ruling by a U.S. court that Adam Guerbuez owed the money for allegedly flooding Facebook pages with more than four million messages.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Any way you can tap into Facebook's bank and get that money?

But still, 4 million?

 

[S0ULphIRE]

And here I thought Canadians were supposed to be friendly

 

[patonb]

We are, we offer quality meds at low low prices!

 

[Harper]

If only we could do the same thing with Farmville Requests.

 

[Trotter]

For Farmville, click the "x" and then chose to hide Farmville. You will never see it again.

 

[overlord20]

HAHA.. lol, why in the world would you request 1 billion dollars? Why not request something more reasonable? Like lets say 10k or something jeeze.

 

[PP Mguire]

He probably banked hard on all that spam and hid the money. After filing for bankruptcy he has all that cash and doesnt have to pay his fine LOL. Maybe i should do this.

 

[patonb]

HAHA.. lol, why in the world would you request 1 billion dollars? Why not request something more reasonable? Like lets say 10k or something jeeze.

Actually, they want/got was $100/message fine and $100/msg punitive, so $200 a msg. Not the courts fault he had 4 m illion msgs... BTW thats $1 billion canadian... And this was just bthe Cdn courts upholding a US courts desicion.

 

[PP Mguire]

US Courts can be pretty retarded at times.