Spammers may want to steer clear of Facebook in the future. Late yesterday, a representative of the social network's legal team announced that it was awarded $711 million in damages as a result of a case against Sanford "Spamford" Wallace.
Facebook Blog, Wallace is "one of the spammers who accessed people's accounts without their permission and sent phony Wall posts and messages." And he's harassed folks in other ways over the years to the point that a 725-word
So if you're spammed on Facebook - and it's looking less likely that you will be - take comfort in the fact that the person responsible may get in quite a lot of trouble.
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