2 years in prison for man who sent spam to Facebook users
Source: Associated Press
2 years in prison for man who sent spam to Facebook users
Updated 11:28 pm, Tuesday, June 14, 2016
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Federal prosecutors say a Las Vegas man has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users and disobeying a court order not to access Facebook.
Federal prosecutors say Tuesday a federal judge in San Jose, California on Monday also ordered 47-year-old Sanford Wallace to pay $310,000 in restitution.
Last year Wallace admitted to accessing about 500,000 Facebook accounts and sending unsolicited ads disguised as friend posts over a three-month span.
Prosecutors say Wallace collected Facebook user account information by sending "phishing" messages that tricked users of the social networking site into providing their passwords.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/2-years-in-prison-for-man-who-sent-spam-to-8166460.php
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silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I report all spam posts.
Orrex
(63,083 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 15, 2016, 08:13 AM - Edit history (1)
He'd be out in three months.
Gosh, I hope that prison isn't rough on him.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Nitram
(22,663 posts)Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
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LoverOfLiberty
(1,438 posts)Disobeying a court order
Hacking accounts
Phishing passwords.
AND sending spam.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)but, in the OP's defense, this is the LBN forum where the thread title is expected to match the article headline.
LoverOfLiberty
(1,438 posts)should have said "The Title...."
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,881 posts)Holy moley. I haven't heard that name in years. This is one serious spammer we're talking about. He goes back a long way. I wonder if....
Why, yes, there is a Wikipedia entry for him: Sanford Wallace
Early career
In the late 1990s, his company, Cyber Promotions, aka Cyberpromo, was widely blacklisted as a source of unsolicited email. Wallace's high-profile pro-spam stance and unrepentant persistence earned him the derisive nickname 'Spamford'.
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Retirement and reemergence
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In 2007, MySpace filed suit against Wallace for phishing and spamming. Wallace had used automated software not allowed by MySpace to create 11,000 fake profiles, in order to direct MySpace users to other websites. In July 2007, US District Judge Audrey B. Collins issued an order prohibiting Wallace from creating or maintaining MySpace profiles, and from using MySpace to post public comments, or send private messages. In April 2008, the California Central District Court issued a default judgment against Wallace in MySpace's lawsuit, after Wallace failed to turn over documents or appear in court.
Yeah. Spamford Wallace. That's the guy. Well, well, well.
If nothing else, the editors at Wikipedia will now be able to establish the year of his birth.
ETA: what's that Mac running? System 7?
Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)I thought good ole Spamford %#@##ing Wallace had disappeared. His latest IP numbers for block lists and his connectivity provider of the week contact information were hot topics in some Usenet groups I frequented.
Shut up and eat your prison Spam, Spamford.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,881 posts)I used to be in this online group, NANAS, which stands for - well, let me see, it was something about network abuse. Google took over those groups, and NANAS was disbanded. That was years and years ago.
I haven't heard anything about Wallace in ages.
I note with some irony that one of the responses in this thread has been removed and the poster's name expunged. Some spambots just don't get it.
Thanks for writing.
Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)thanks for writing back
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)The restitution fee seems rather small, too.