Saturday, August 6, 2011

Spam King surrendered


Sanford Wallace, has a long history associated with junk messages.


A U.S. citizen will be prosecuted for sending more than 27 million spam or unsolicited messages to Facebook users.

Sanford Wallace, known as the Spam King, finally surrendered himself to federal FBI agents in California.

Prosecutors charge him with the charge to develop a program that can penetrate spam filters and woo Facebook users to collect personal data.

Wallace himself has denied allegations that could take him in jail for 10 years.

Despite the surrender, but he has reportedly released on bail of U.S. $ 100,000 or equivalent to Rp851 million.



THROUGH SECURITY

Attorney Wallace said the program was developed that incorporated into the walls of Facebook users - as if it came from a friend - urged users to visit sites that collect personal data.

They were then directed to an affiliate site that can provide benefits for Wallace.

Program that he created could also collect data user's friends and put up spam messages to their wall.

Some 500,000 Facebook users become victims between November 2008 to March 2009, with more than 27 million spam messages sent.

Wallace, a man from Las Vegas, will now be charged with six charges related to electronic mail fraud, three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal attempt.

Facebook Wallace in 2009 and demanded a federal jury ordered him not to access the computer network Facebook. But he repeatedly penetrate the security system up and violated a court order.

In addition to Facebook, Wallace also never lost in civil court between him and the MySpace website in 2008 in the case of junk messages that he sent to members of the social networking site.

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