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 According to Facebook, 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. This is the latest legal action the social networking site has taken related to spam....

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Comments...
Spamming is an abusive in electronic messaging systems. This phenomenon is hampering the development of the information society by undermining user confidence and trust in online activities. Appropriate actions to solve the problem of spam are necessary at national and international levels. It is an unethical behavior because it criminally by stealing others info and it can harm the users.

So.. i think tat these people are unethical and they should follow the rules but not taking the shortcut to do inllegal action. These people deserve to get the punishment from the law!