Wanted Facebook spammer surrenders to FBI

[DainBramaged]

Self-described spam king Sanford Wallace surrendered to the FBI today after being indicted on charges he broke into Facebook accounts to send 27 million spam e-mails on the social network.







Wallace, 43, was indicted in July by a San Jose, Calif., grand jury on three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California. Wallace allegedly compromised approximately 500,000 Facebook accounts during three separate attacks on the social-networking giant between November 2008 and March 2009.

http://majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=30038

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Election fraud attempts underway in Wisconsin and DOJ is

focused on Facebook hackers and pot smokers.

[Ian David]

3. You don't understand. This douchebag is like the Osama bin Laden of spammers. n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. That is what the delete function is for.

Hacking, I get, but yawn.

[Ian David]

5. Most of that spam was sent through hacked networks and computers. n/t

[Renew Deal]

8. Yes, because the DOJ can't handle two things at the same time.

:shrug:

[Ian David]

2. I have hated this guy all the way back to the days of my 1200 baud modem!

I hope they bury this asshole UNDER the jail.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Sounds like this is deeper than Facebook

[Ian David]

9. MUCH deeper.

Sanford Wallace
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sanford "Spamford" Wallace (born c. 1968)<1> 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'. (Wallace later registered the Internet address spamford.com.)

Prior to his email spam ventures, Wallace had gained notoriety in other questionable marketing circles, as a heavy utilizer of junk fax marketing, a practice outlawed in the United States since 1991.<2>

In 1995, Wallace formed Cyber Promotions, entering the spam market. Thanks to a self-marketing campaign, Cyberpromo rapidly became the most successful seller of email marketing—as well as the number one source of unsolicited email. After Cyberpromo failed to become a legitimate business, Wallace returned to junk faxing in late 1997.<2>

Wallace's company brought a number of spam-blocking evasion tactics to the fore of the spam battle. False return addresses, relaying, and multihoming were among the questionable practices used by Cyberpromo to ensure the penetration of their advertising.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Wallace


Really, this dude is the bin Laden of spam.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Ah - thanks

[Renew Deal]

7. Is he subject to the death penalty?

Probably should be.