Finally: Spamford goes to prison

[MagicDude4Eva]

A true piece of work - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Wallace

Sanford Wallace has been sentenced to 2 years in jail by the US District court in San Jose for contempt of court and electronic mail fraud. Sanford has been around for more than 2 decades.

He is one of the original creators of spam and also the main reason why junk faxing is illegal in the US. Story goes that when the US congress discussed prohibiting junk faxing, Sanford happened to flood their offices with marketing faxes. This made Congresses decision so much easier.

He was also the guy who flooded half a million Facebook users a good 10 years ago with several million spam messages.

 

[morkhans]

SAN JOSE – Sanford Wallace was sentenced yesterday to 30 months’ imprisonment and was ordered to pay $310,628.55 in restitution for sending millions of spam messages to Facebook users and disobeying a court order not to access Facebook announced the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Wallace, 47, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty on August 24, 2015 to one count of fraud and related activity in connection with electronic mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1037(a)(1) and (b)(2)(A); and one count of criminal contempt, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 401(3). According to the plea agreement Wallace admitted to executing a scheme from approximately November 2008 through March 2009 to send spam messages to Facebook users that compromised approximately 500,000 legitimate Facebook accounts, and resulted in over 27 million spam messages being sent through Facebook’s servers.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/p...nd-half-years-custody-spamming-facebook-users