Social networking sites have become a medium in which spammers are thriving nowadays and this is not a good thing, as such profiles contain valuable personal information and people care about them very much.

Facebook has just won a lawsuit against a Canadian spammer, who used different techniques to gain access to different Facebook profiles in order to send all types of spam messages.

Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, who runs Atlantis Blue Capital and Ballervision.com must pay $873m to the social networking site after sending “sexually explicit” messages and used different phishing techniques.

Facebook has little chances of actually getting the money from the spammer, but has declared that they will try to get their hands on every penny they can.

This case should be given as an example to all of those who think that spamming and invading someone else’s privacy is something to toy with. Guerbuez is said to have sent approximately 4 million spam messages, urging users to buy sexual enhancement pills and other messages of this kind.

He is also said to have used different phishing techniques in order to gain access to even more Facebook accounts for bombarding them with spam messages.

The spammer is banned from accessing Facebook ever again and the site will collect as much money as they can for the damage they’ve sustained.

In a similar case, MySpace won a conflict with a spammer earlier this year, winning $230m from notorious junk mailer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace and Walter Rines. This extremely high fines for spamming might solve this issue one and for all.