Sanford Wallace, also know by his nickname “Spam King”, surrendered to FBI agents in Las Vegas on Thursday, he was charged in San Jose with six counts of fraud with electronic mail, three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and one count of criminal contempt.
Sanford Wallace had allegedly sent more than 27 million spam messages by compromising the friend lists of 500,000 Facebook accounts and stole personal information between November 2008 and March 2009.
Prosecutors say Wallace found a way to evade Facebook’s spam filter then automated a method to farm friend lists and post messages. Wallace was also believed to have collected email addresses and passwords for Facebook accounts using a deceptive method then sending them to a affiliate website where Wallace was paid for the users he redirected.
Sam O’Rourke updated a October 2009 post about spamming titled “The Fight Goes On“, saying “we applaud the efforts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI to bring spammers to justice and will continue to pursue and support both civil and criminal consequences for spammers and others who attempt to harm Facebook or the people who use our service. ”
Facebook has previously won $711 million in damages in 2009 from Sanford Wallace though he previously filed for bankruptcy. MySpace also filed a suit in 2007 after the spammer created 11,000 fake profiles to direct websites to questionable content.
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Awesome! It’s good to know that there is some justice in our country.