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Spam King Wallace Indicted For Facebook Spam

Posted by timothy on from the that's-guilty!-guilty!-guilty! dept.

itwbennett writes "Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into the Facebook accounts of 500,000 victims in 2008 and 2009 and using the stolen credentials to post 27 million spam messages. The charges are outlined in an indictment, filed July 6 but made public Thursday after Wallace turned himself in to federal authorities. If convicted, Wallace could get more than 16 years in prison."

2 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This isn't spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This: not give a shit because they're that desperate for traffic

    I have done work for a multi-level marketing company and I can tell you they were desperate enough for traffic that they paid a couple of other companies to send traffic to them.

  2. The Rules of Spam by Eggplant62 · · Score: 3, Informative
    From Bruce Pennypacker's Rules of Spam Post on his personal blog:

    Rule 0: Spam is theft

    Rule 1: Spammers lie.

    Rule 2: When in doubt about spammers lying, see rule 1.

    Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.

    Rule #4: The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt.

    Time and again, these simple rules have proven themselves. Too many fallen spam kings, too many spam kings sitting in jail or just plain bankrupt.