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Pennywise
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 Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:31 am Post subject: Facebook sues spammer and wins! |
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I hate spammers and I loved reading this!
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Quebec spammer must pay Facebook $873M
05/10/2010 3:50:32 PM
CBC News
A Quebec man has been ordered to pay Facebook $873 million US after he bombarded its members with explicit spam messages.
The Quebec Superior Court has upheld a U.S. court ruling that ordered Adam Guerbuez and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital, to pay damages to the social networking giant.
In her Sept. 28 ruling, Quebec Judge Lucie Fournier ordered Guerbuez to pay $100 US in damages and $100 US in punitive damages for each of the 4,366,386 spam messages he sent to Facebook users in 2008.
Fournier also forbade Guerbuez from having a Facebook account or being involved in any way with the social-networking site ever again.
Guerbuez sent more than four million messages to Facebook users, praising the use of marijuana and drugs for erectile dysfunction.
Some of the messages contained sexually explicit material.
Facebook filed a civil case against him, and a California court ruled in 2008 that the Montreal man had violated U.S. electronic commerce laws. The court ordered him to pay $873 million US in damages.
The company then pursued Guerbuez to Quebec, where he lives, filing a motion in Quebec Superior Court asking it to recognize and enforce the U.S. ruling.
His lawyer, Éric Potvin, argued the damages were too excessive to fall under Quebec jurisdiction, but the judge disagreed.
Guerbuez filed for bankruptcy
Potvin said his client was disappointed by the latest ruling, but not surprised.
He said Guerbuez has filed for bankruptcy.
"The debt [to Facebook] will be part of his bankruptcy and paid with all of the other creditors," Potvin told CBC News.
Guerbuez wrote on his personal website Tuesday that he has been flooded with interview requests and planned to hold a news conference on Wednesday.
Facebook has previously said it hoped the case would discourage future spammers from using its site.
With files from The Canadian Press
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | 4,366,386 spam messages |
WOW 
| Quote: | | Quebec spammer must pay Facebook $873M |
Bigger WOW
That's an insane amount of money.
That's like $20 for every SPAM!
| Quote: | | Facebook has previously said it hoped the case would discourage future spammers from using its site. |
Yes i think that sort of penalty should/would deter many but im sure it will never stop to some extent.
I had to laugh tho...
| Quote: | | Guerbuez filed for bankruptcy |
Well unless he's a BILLIONAIRE, how can you not after that fine  |
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taz775
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:07 am Post subject: |
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LOL 873 MILLION! WOW, hehe thats a lot of spam. hmm serves him rigiht lol he lost in the longrun though. 
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Destroyer wrote: | WOW!!!!!! 873 million dollars? Good luck paying that.
It's funny how that dumb spammer got slammed so badly but it seems like overkill to me.  |
whats funny about that unless the spammer was sentenced to time in jail they pretty much one the case.
if the spammers smart enough they will pay X million amount to court and legal fees and have XX amount in a hidden account some were over seas and start over again.
The source here HERE sheds a different light saying it was in amount of
$1,068,928,721.46.
Its confirmed ICBM is the spammer.
When did he become such a pimp. |
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Lonny
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Destroyer wrote: | | What's funny about it? I'm not the only one that thinks it's funny when a loser/troublemaker like that gets in big trouble. I don't know, whatever. |
it seems you must of taken what i said out of context or just misunderstood entirely what i said.
i was only agreeing with you in case you missed it. |
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neeraffa
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:25 am Post subject: |
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That's mad - i didn't think it was possible to be able so sue someone for spamming!
I wonder is Arcade Boss could sue The Big Hobb for all his spam! LMAO!!
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Lonny
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| neeraffa wrote: | That's mad - i didn't think it was possible to be able so sue someone for spamming!
I wonder is Arcade Boss could sue The Big Hobb for all his spam! LMAO!! |
if he wanted to he can however it will cost more for AB in time consumption and money to do. not worth it unless the big lop made big money. |
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Fireriku546
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Haah Waaw
Now they're going to get the facebook porn hacker right? |
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Lonny
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| a hacker is not a spammer/SPIMer a cracker is not a hacker their all different. |
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Pennywise
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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What the hell does that mean?
@Lonny
I think he's talking about them finding who's distributing porn links on FB.
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Lonny
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| ah gotcha. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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neeraffa wrote:
| Quote: | That's mad - i didn't think it was possible to be able so sue someone for spamming!
I wonder is Arcade Boss could sue The Big Hobb for all his spam! LMAO!! |
HAHAHA that's so funny, good sense of humour there neeraffa + thank's for the laugh
Same here, i was also really surprised to see that amount.
Fair enough to recover cost's of what it cost to clean it up and to give a strong fine but nearly one billion dollar's
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