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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:00 AM Jun 2016

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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2 years in prison for man who sent spam to Facebook users (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2016 OP
Good! silverweb Jun 2016 #1
If only he'd raped an unconscious woman Orrex Jun 2016 #2
My thoughts exactly. n/t djean111 Jun 2016 #4
What a jovial-looking guy! Helen Borg Jun 2016 #3
Good! Nitram Jun 2016 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2016 #6
Your title minimizes what he was actually sent to jail for LoverOfLiberty Jun 2016 #7
I don't disagree, given this guy's history, Cal Carpenter Jun 2016 #12
Gotcha LoverOfLiberty Jun 2016 #13
Sanford Wallace mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 #8
You beat me to it Yonnie3 Jun 2016 #9
Usenet - there's another blast from the past. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 #10
for some reason Eternal September has been on my mind lately Yonnie3 Jun 2016 #11
2.5 years is better than nothing. ManiacJoe Jun 2016 #14

Orrex

(63,083 posts)
2. If only he'd raped an unconscious woman
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:11 AM
Jun 2016

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.

Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

LoverOfLiberty

(1,438 posts)
7. Your title minimizes what he was actually sent to jail for
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 09:28 AM
Jun 2016

Disobeying a court order
Hacking accounts
Phishing passwords.

AND sending spam.

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)
12. I don't disagree, given this guy's history,
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 12:27 PM
Jun 2016

but, in the OP's defense, this is the LBN forum where the thread title is expected to match the article headline.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,881 posts)
8. Sanford Wallace
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 09:42 AM
Jun 2016

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

Sanford Wallace (born c. 1968) came to notoriety in 1997, promoting himself as the original "Spam King". Wallace's prolific spamming has resulted in encounters with the United States government, anti-spam activists, and large corporations such as Facebook and MySpace. Wallace initially started sending junk faxes before moving on to spyware and email spam.

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'.
....

Retirement and reemergence

....
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)
9. You beat me to it
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 11:03 AM
Jun 2016

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)
10. Usenet - there's another blast from the past.
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 11:47 AM
Jun 2016

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.

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