A Spammer's Payback

[Charles Pegge]

A spammer's payback

You don't always have to leave the house and risk people's lives with high-speed tricks to get big fines; you can do it from the confines of your comfy home. According to Canadian TV network CTV, Adam Guerbuez of Montreal, sent out more than four million Facebook spam messages over the course of two months, and when he was caught and fined in 2008, the courts really wanted to make an example of him. A California court ruled that Guerbuez had to pay more than £523 million. A Quebec court upheld the ruling this year, but Guerbuez has since filed for bankruptcy, making the outrageous fine more of a symbolic gesture to spammers everywhere.

Five huge personal fines:
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/02112010/389/5-huge-personal-fines.html

[kryton9]

The courts are becoming a joke and I guess the sickness in the USA is spreading. I will leave it at that as a book can be written about the whole thing.

[Charles Pegge]

Mmmm. $15 per spam is rather disproportionate and reflects the impotent rage that the public feels towards spammers in general. I think the nuisance penalty for a spam should be 50 cents max. So maybe 2 million dollars would be more just

Charles