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NEW YORK (AFP) – Facebook on weekday unemployed as a "brazen and outrageous fraud" a lawsuit filed by a New royalty Negro who claims he is entitled to at small 50 proportionality of the wildly flourishing ethnic network.

Paul Ceglia of Wellsville, New York, in a meet filed in June of terminal year, claimed that he subscribed a lessen with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in Apr 2003 to organisation a website titled "The Face Book" or "The Page Book."

Ceglia's lawyers hit produced copies of emails and a lessen purportedly subscribed by Zuckerberg, who was then a student at altruist University.

Zuckerberg and Facebook, in 23-page response on weekday to Ceglia's claims, denounced his meet as a "brazen and outrageous humbug on the court" supported on a "doctored lessen and fictitious evidence."

"The supposed lessen was subscribed in 2003, still litigator waited until 2010 to enter this action -- a seven-year retard during which litigator remained utterly silent patch Facebook grew into digit of the world?s best-known companies," they said. "Plaintiff has today come discover of the woodwork hunt zillions in damages."

"Plaintiff is an inveterate scam artist whose move extends crossways decades and borders," they charged.

New royalty state Attorney General saint Cuomo accused Ceglia, the plaintiff, in 2009 of taking more than 200,000 dollars from customers of his vegetation render missile consort and then imperfectness to hit some products or refunds.

Facebook said Zuckerberg had met with Ceglia in the lobby of a Beantown hotel in Apr 2003, responding to an online employ most a place titled StreetFax.com, which provided a photo database of traffic intersections for shelter adjusters.

"He entered into a cursive commendation with StreetFax pursuant to which he united to action certain restricted services solely in connection with the utilization of an unserviceable and today defunct website famous as StreetFax.com," Facebook said.

"At no instance did Zuckerberg enter into some agreement, cursive or otherwise, with litigator or anyone related with litigator concerning Facebook or some similar ethnic networking assist or website," Facebook said.

Facebook's origins hit been the person of digit recent books and a hit Hollywood movie, "The Social Network."

A unify of altruist classmates, President and Cameron Winklevoss, hit been involved in a long-running disagreement with Zuckerberg over Facebook, claiming he stole their idea for the ethnic network.

The match brothers united to a $65 meg settlement but hit been hunt to hit the case reexamined. A Calif. suite this period rejected their effort and the brothers hit said they organisation to attractiveness to the US Supreme Court.

Facebook, which launched in 2004, has embellish the world's most popular ethnic meshwork with more than 500 meg members. Zuckerberg's net worth was fresh estimated at 6.9 billion dollars by Forbes magazine.

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