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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversFacebook has been awarded damages of & 36;711 million against Sanford Wallace, who spammed the social network with fake messages. Wallace was sued in February, alongside Adam Arzoomanian, for obtaining login details for accounts and using them to send links to phishing or commercial sites that paid spammers for referrals. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California came up with the & 36;711 million figure by issuing & 36;50 per violation of the CAN-SPAM Act - of which there would be approximately 1.4 million. According to the company blog, Facebook "doesn& 39;t expect to receive the vast majority of the award" however, they are hoping that a separate criminal action will send him to jail.
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