Facebook has won a US federal lawsuit ruling against "spam king"
Sanford
Wallace and alleged associates.
Facebook filed a federal complaint against Wallace in a San Jose
District Court. Alleged associates Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw
were also named as defendants in the suit, according to a report on
developer site
insidefacebook.com.
The three men are alleged to have used the Facebook network to
target potential spamming victims and to have used their identities
and profiles to spead their marketing messages to others using the
site.
In May 2008, MySpace won a $234m judgement against Wallace and a
business partner for illegal spam and phishing attacks against
MySpace users.
Wallace has been spreading spam since the 1990s, and has been
accused of various federal crimes since he came on the scene.
In response to the Facebook lawsuit, a judge has banned Wallace
and his alleged associates from accessing or trying to access the
Facebook network.
If they do, Facebook can apply for their arrest.