Facebook spammer ordered to pay $711 million

fines. fines and more fines.. why don't they just throw this useless waste of space in JAIL already. He is not only guilty of all the spam but he costs an untold amount of damages in $ and time. Jail the bastard and that will send a REAL message about what will happen to those generating spam.

wow, incredible, they're actually making a BIG example of someone. Fantastic news.

Seize all of his assets (like Madoff). Sell everything and distribute proportionately to all winners of previous lawsuits. Send him to jail. It seems to me that the Federal CAN-SPAM act should result in felony convictions (not misdemeanors). Three convictions of felony offenses should result in an automatic minimum jail sentence. What good are Federal laws if no one goes to jail?

I gald he has to pay all that money, what he does is out of pure annoyance to others for his own amusement. I hope they take everything he owns, including his facebook page(if he has one) and sells it.

First of all, who wants to buy a facebook page? That stuff is free. And second of all, I'm agreeing with the people suggesting the fine is too ridiculous. Do any of you honestly believe that such a fine can be paid by a civilian? Even with a lucrative business in the spamming and scamming industry, nobody makes that kind of cash. Otherwise, you'd never even HEAR from that guy ever again. He's buying an island and going away forever in international waters.

At the very least though, the guy was caught. A suitable punishment however is highly debatable. One thing is for sure. Paying a fine of ANY size is not a successful way to prevent this sort of stuff from happening again. If you got a speeding ticket for doing 200 miles per hour, and all you had to do was pay a fine, would that honestly stop you from speeding again? I highly doubt it.

I know everyone needs to make money somehow but come on. This guy makes a living off of annoying the everliving hell out of people whether it be minor annoyances to something that might escalate out of his ventures. I'm glad this guy got caught, charged and fined.

In my opinion spammers should be punished with heavy fines together with some prison time! They are on of the internet's nightmares!

it's about time these guys get into deep S**T with spam as it's out of control. I have received over 50 emails this week alone from "FACEBOOK ADMIN" and they all are annoying and a waste of time.

I have many customers who always ask me, "how do I stop these emails from coming in"... when I explain that this is pretty much the normal part of the internet today, they start to wine.

Twice as in you think you'd think you think you'd think?

He got caught again. I guess he just didn't learn. The fine is crazy (how could any one person pay that) and dumb (didn't work the first time). Put this guy in jail if you want him to think twice before doing it again.

where did this dude get $1 BILLION dollars? Seems he should be making license plates for a long time

Too bad this guy isn't in jail. He has a lot of money to spend on lawsuits like this.
The CAN SPAM law specifically allows the spammer to be sentenced a jail term.
Obviously this guy's lawyer did something to make him only pay a fine.

I think he should lose all rights to a PC for life , as well a realistic fine on which would ruin him completely ... but can you really blame him ? I mean he's just lookin to make a buck and who is really hurt that much by SPAM , your grandma?

Good job! Throw him in jail and the rest of the spammers, and the whole internet will breathe a big sigh of relief.

i guess he deserves whatever punishment he had. i really don't get the point of disturbing a web social community just for the sake of self fulfillment that "oh i am intelligent in computer stuffs, i can hack whatever site there is..." i think this case should be a sort of deterrent, as the above article says, for those "attention-seeker" people in the web who tries to ruin somebody else's privacy.

in addition, with that lots of offences he made in the past, he should have learned his lesson, but he does not. so he has to face the consequences of his misdeed.

computer is indeed made for human's convenience and even for entertainment. but it is not made just for you or for me, its is for everybody! we need to respect everybody's privacy and security as well. hope that this particular scenario about this web offender man can be a lesson for everybody...

That guy will never be able to pay that. So I would punished him by making him worked to delete all the spam in Facebook.
He will never have time anymore to spam the others...

I am always happy every time I hear about one of these criminals getting prosecuted, stripped of their illegally obtained finances, and prison time. But it does not happen often enough or quickly enough. This activity really hurts the internet community in all categories. The laws and personnel to fight this must be stepped up.

Wow that is a lot of money! How can he afford that amount of money?! It is all well saying he has to pay it but there is no way he has that sort of money to pay so facebook wont get it!

Some people just never learn... After being caught once, I think I'd think twice before doing it again.

I forget exactly how the quote goes, but the gist is " doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity ". Fines don't work !!!!!

Cut off his hands, then lock him up.

Spam and worst, Virus writers, will not cease until serious deterrents are in place.