Breaking: Facebook Awarded $873 Million in Damages
Spam definitely doesn’t pay in the long run. Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital learned that when Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded Facebook $873 million in damages for them sending “sleazy messages” to their users. According to Facebook, this is the “largest judgment in history for action brought under the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM)”. You can read more about the act here.
Unfortunately Facebook doesn’t expect that they will ever receive the $873 million awarded to them as spammers typically don’t pay and traditionally operate from abroad.
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