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Facebook was awarded $711M in damages against the convicted spammer Sanford Wallace.
Sanford Wallace was sued by Facebook in February along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for engaging in a phishing and spamming scam that compromised many Facebook accounts.
The spammers were accused of sending spam emails to Facebook members that linked to external websites that harvest their accounts details. They took control over these members’ Facebook accounts and used them to send spam emails and wall posts to their friends. These spam emails and wall posts either linked to external websites that harvest their Facebook account details or linked to commercial websites that paid spammers for referrals.
In addition to the judgement, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has sent a request to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to prosecute Wallace for criminal contempt, so he may face jail time.
Facebook is not pursuing claims against Arzoomanian and Shaw.

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   WOT uses safety ratings of 21 million websites. It combines evidence collected from multiple sources, like phishing and spam blacklists, with the ratings provided by WOT users.
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