Adam Guerbuez has been landed with a US $873 million judgement by a district court in San Jose. The Montreal-based spammer sent more than 4 million spam messages to users of the Facebook system. He stole the username and password details of Facebook members, and then used infected computers under his control to automatically log into the profiles and spew out spam. It’s a long shot, of course, that Facebook will ever get to see the enormous amount of money awarded to it but whats more important is will it deter other spammers from abusing the system?”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/facebook-takes-on-spammer-and-wins-873-million/