LOS ANGELES (AP) — Facebook says 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 also says on its blog that 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.
Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.
Facebook says the judgment marks the second-largest anti-spam award ever.
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.
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