Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million 135
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook has been awarded $360,500,000 in damages against spammer Philip Porembski, who phished the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Facebook claimed it received more than 8,000 complaints from users as a result of the spam campaign, and more than 4,500 users had deactivated their accounts."
No debtors prison in America (Score:4, Informative)
If you don't pay your civil debts you can be jailed. This is the likely end of the situation.
In America you only go to jail if you REFUSE to pay a civil judgment and get a contempt of court citation.
If you CANNOT pay there's no prison.
Otherwise OJ Simpson would've been in debtor's prison shortly after the Ronald Goldman civil verdict appeals were exhausted.
It's not unheard of for people to make themselves "legally broke" to escape seizure and "legally very low income" to escape garnishment the rest of their lives (or until that state's limit on collecting judgments expires) after a civil judgment, much to the chagrin of whoever got the judgment against them.