Facebook "King of Spam" facing lengthy jail time

Sanford Wallace, the self proclaimed “King of Spam” is facing as much as forty years worth of jail time following his continued Facebook and email phishing scams.

Hitting over half a million Facebook users between 2008 and 2009, leading to 27 million spam messages, Wallace has now been indicted by a California court on three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt.

Three seperate attacks were all it took to gain access to the half-million Facebook accounts Wallace used to send his phising messages around.

If Wallace is found guilty of all charges he also faces as much as $2 million worth of fines in addition to his incarceration. The charges are all the more severe considering Wallace has been found in violation of a court order banning him from Facebook in 2009. Wallace had been accessing the social network under the pseudoymn David Sinful-Saturdays Fredericks.

Wallace was also the brains behind the notorious CyberPromotions junk email ring that sent 30 million-odd emails in the late 1990’s.