Most sentences against spammers are not nearly high enough to have an impact on spamming operations. However, the latest case, filed by Facebook against Atlantis Blue Capital on August 14 of this year, is likely to put on company out of business. Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded Facebook $873,277,200 in damages for accessing the company’s servers, setting up phishing websites to acquire Facebook logins and email addresses and sending more than 4 million emails to Facebook’s members.

Those numbers translate into a cost of about $218. Max Kelly, Facebook's director of security, said that the company does not expect that it will be able to “quickly collect” the funds. “It's unlikely that Geurbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital could ever honor the judgment rendered against them (though we will certainly collect everything we can),” he wrote in a blog post.

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