Sanford “Spamford” Wallace is a spammer who came to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original Spam King. With such recognition and status, its difficult to ignore their presence in the internet. He was popular for sending 30 millions junk mails per day in 1990s. Now that social networking is the new marketing platform, its of no surprise that he would be attacking with his spam campaign on sites like Twitter and Facebook.

According to the news:

Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.

Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users’ accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages. The company said on its blog that in addition to the damage award, the San Jose, Calif., court referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution for criminal contempt of court — meaning he could face jail time.

Similar events in History:

In May 2008, the online hangout MySpace won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members when a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled against Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, in another case brought under the federal anti-spam law known as CAN-SPAM. In 2006, Wallace was fined $4 million after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of running an operation that infected computers with software that caused flurries of pop-up ads, known as “spyware.”

In November 2008, Facebook won an $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital, who bombarded users with sexually explicit spam messages.

Source of News : Venture Beat and Yahoo News