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'Spam King' is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison
Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed "Spam King" who was responsible for a ton of spam messages on Facebook a few years ago, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. From 2008 to 2009, Wallace blasted people with a link to an external website that stole their log-in credentials and downloaded their friends' lists. He then spammed those users, stole their log-ins in order to spam their friends, and so on and so forth. Wallace accessed Facebook's computer network several times during that period to execute his scheme. In all, he was responsible for 27 million* spam messages on the social network. If you received any shady PM within that timeframe, it was probably from him.
'Spam King' guilty of posting 27 million Facebook messages
One of the web's all-time notorious spammers is facing jail after pleading guilty to sending 27 million unwanted messages to Facebook users. Sanford Wallace, aka "the Spam King," aka "Spamford Wallace," admitted that he unlawfully accessed over 500,000 accounts on the network between 2008-9 in violation of a court order. This is far from his first rodeo -- Sanford was annoying consumers well before the internet came along, when he sent junk faxes in violation of laws enacted in 1991. Since then, he's faced lawsuits for email spamming, multiple-window launching (remember that?) spyware scams and MySpace phishing, to name a few.
