Facebook sues men for allegedly phishing, spamming
Facebook has sued three men, alleging they used phishing techniques to get access to Facebook user accounts and then sent spam from the compromised accounts.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court and named as defendants Jeremi Fisher, Philip Porembski, Ryan Shimeall and the companies associated with them, Choko Systems, Harm, and iMedia Online Services, according to a Facebook statement late on Tuesday. The defendants could not be reached for comment.
A Facebook spokesperson was trying to find out what court the lawsuit was filed in.
The lawsuit makes claims under the Can-Spam (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the California Anti-Phishing Act and the California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, according to Facebook.
This is the latest legal action the social networking site has taken related to spam. In October, Facebook was awarded $711 million in a judgment Thursday against self-described "spam king" Sanford Wallace.
The largest judgment ever under the Can-Spam Act was an $873 million award Facebook won in November 2008 against Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital.
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