"Spam King" who sent 27 million spam messages on Facebook has been in prison for two and a half years & a fine of 32 million yen

BySusan Sermoneta

Commonly sent to Facebook users over 27 million spam messagesSpam King"Was sentenced to a fine of 30 months for imprisonment and about $ 310,000 (about 32 million yen).

Sanford "Spam King" Wallace Sentenced To Two And A Half Years In Custody For Spamming Facebook Users | USAO - NDCA | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/sanford-spam-king-wallace-sentenced-two-and-half-years-custody-spamming-facebook-users


"Spam King," who defied nearly $ 1 B in default judgments, sentenced to 2.5 years | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/spam-king-who-defied-nearly-1b-in-default-judgments-sentenced-to-2-5-years/

Spam King, Sanford Wallace (47) acknowledged that he sent massive spam messages to over 500,000 Facebook users from November 2008 to November 2009. The spam message sent by Wallace contains the URL of the website, and opening that URL will steal Facebook login information and friends list. By sending the same spam message to the collected friends list, I know that I was repeating the malicious spam act of increasing the number of victims from one to the next, and Wallace saw the traffic of the user who visited the website He said that he had earned profits from him.

It is not the first time that Wallace was arrested, and in addition to knowing that he was working on spamming to send annoying faxes in 1991, he also went on Facebook, MySpace, and AOL from 2007 to 2009 It has been sentenced to about 1 billion dollars (about 104.7 billion yen) as a result of spam actions. Wallace said that he did not pay this fine.

Wallace, which was known as "Spam King" because of repeated malicious spam actions, was convicted in 2009 and forbidden access to Facebook, but admitted that it violated the court order I will. In future it will be forbidden to access Facebook, access it, and create an account.

ByByung chul kim