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[I]John Du Hart, pictured in 1997, has a long history of sending junk mail[/I]
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A US man charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has turned himself in.
Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents in California.
Prosecutors allege he developed a program that breached Facebook spam filters and lured users to submit their account details.
Mr Wallace denies the charges, which carry prison sentences of up to 10 years.
He has been released on $100,000 (£61,000) bail.
Prosecutors say Mr Wallace's program posted messages on Facebook users walls - purportedly from friends - urging users to visit a website where their account details were then harvested.
They were then redirected to an affiliate website that earned Wallace "substantial revenue", the charges say.
The program also retrieved lists of Facebook users' friends and posted spam messages on their walls, the indictment adds.
About 500,000 Facebook accounts were compromised between November 2008 and March 2009, leading to more than 27 million spam messages being sent, prosecutors said.
Mr Wallace, who is from Las Vegas, is charged with six counts of electronic mail fraud, three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt.
Facebook sued Mr Wallace in 2009 and a federal judge ordered him not to access Facebook's computer network. However, prosecutors say he repeatedly violated that order earlier this year.
Mr Wallace also lost a civil case brought against him by MySpace in 2008 over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site.[/release]
What exactly was the purpose of his spamming? To gain access to other peoples accounts?
People that were stupid enough to put in their info deserved it.
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JUST LOOK AT THAT LADIES MAN
GONNA GET SO MUCH ASS TONIGHT TODAY, ARENTCHYUH.
So this guy faces 10 years and $100,000 bail for spam on a social networking site, while admitted child rapists get 8 or 9? I could murder someone and probably get a lighter sentence than that.
Well he doesn't really look like a social person to begin with.
[QUOTE=Van-man;31563782]Well he doesn't really look like a social person to begin with.[/QUOTE]
That's compwhizii in the OP. Here's the actual Sanford Wallace:
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54450000/jpg/_54450249__44654490_myspam-ap226-1.jpg[/img]
But yes, your statement still stands.
What ever happened to comphizi?
[QUOTE=marcin1337;31563893]What ever happened to comphizi?[/QUOTE]
I think he got perma'd by garry a while ago.
[QUOTE=Rome;31563830]That's compwhizii in the OP. Here's the actual Sanford Wallace:
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54450000/jpg/_54450249__44654490_myspam-ap226-1.jpg[/img]
But yes, your statement still stands.[/QUOTE]
a true lady killer
[QUOTE=TheChantzGuy;31563564]What exactly was the purpose of his spamming? To gain access to other peoples accounts?[/QUOTE]
Same reason for all spam, to earn money.
[QUOTE=Rome;31563688]So this guy faces 10 years and $100,000 bail for spam on a social networking site, while admitted child rapists get 8 or 9? I could murder someone and probably get a lighter sentence than that.[/QUOTE]
If you murdered someone you would face the death penalty. You probably wouldn't get it just like he probably won't get 10 years.
[QUOTE=thispieiscold;31564027]a true lady killer[/QUOTE]
If by that you mean he hires prostitutes and then kills them, then probably.
[QUOTE=flyschy;31564924]If you murdered someone you would face the death penalty. You probably wouldn't get it just like he probably won't get 10 years.[/QUOTE]
hey did you know people live in other areas then you
[QUOTE=Toothpick;31565003]hey did you know people live in other areas then you[/QUOTE]
I highly doubt any country has a higher maximum penalty for internet spam compared to murder.
[QUOTE=Rome;31563688]So this guy faces 10 years and $100,000 bail for spam on a social networking site, while admitted child rapists get 8 or 9? I could murder someone and probably get a lighter sentence than that.[/QUOTE]
note the word [i]faces[/i]
[QUOTE=Rome;31563688]So this guy faces 10 years and $100,000 bail for spam on a social networking site, while admitted child rapists get 8 or 9? I could murder someone and probably get a lighter sentence than that.[/QUOTE]
Bear in mind though that he is a repeat offender which could explain the 10 years.
I could be entirely wrong though.
[QUOTE=Rome;31563830]That's compwhizii in the OP. Here's the actual Sanford Wallace:
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54450000/jpg/_54450249__44654490_myspam-ap226-1.jpg[/img]
But yes, your statement still stands.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit that's Compwhizii? I'd scrape my face off if I looked like that
[QUOTE=Squarebob;31563579]People that were stupid enough to put in their info deserved it.[/QUOTE]
Stupid people deserve bad things to happen to them? When did this become an accepted idea?
rip computer wizard
[QUOTE=Rome;31563830]That's compwhizii in the OP. Here's the actual Sanford Wallace:
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54450000/jpg/_54450249__44654490_myspam-ap226-1.jpg[/img]
But yes, your statement still stands.[/QUOTE]
Fuck I was about to make a joke about how he looks like compwhizii
[QUOTE=marcin1337;31563893]What ever happened to comphizi?[/QUOTE]
iirc, he got payed to sit on his ass and not do much, so garry fired and perma'd him.
-snip- bad reading
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