Canadian Adam Guerbuez has been found guilty of hacking into face book members profiles & posting a bombardment of sexually explicit messages. Guerbuez who runs the company atlantis blue capital & ballervision was ordered to damages to the value of $873m, the fine was so high because he was charged with not only mounting a junk mail campaign but also he was found guilty at hacking into members profiles. After not contesting the case an injunction was placed on him which bans him from ever using face book ever again. Guerbuez was reported to have flooded users with over 4million messages, he also used advanced phising techniques & scams to trick users into disclosing their passwords & login details. Earlier this year the social networking site myspace won a similar case to the value of $230m when a pair of spammers were caught. Social networking sites like facebook & myspace have become easy targets to spammers who wish to make a profit off of their members - if the Guerbuez case says anything its that the sites are starting to fight back & win, true they will have a hard time getting the total cost of damages back from Guerbuez but it wont stop them from trying.
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