"King of Spam" invaded Facebook account was litigated

Due to allegedly invading Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009, “the king of spam” Stanford & middot; Sanford Wallace faces fraud charges in federal courts in the United States. The US Department of Justice said that the 43-year-old Wallace used a phishing attack to steal usernames and passwords from victims and then used the stolen information to send spam to the victim's message wall. In this way, Wallace has increased the network traffic of affiliate marketing companies and profited from it. Affiliate marketing companies pay them based on the number of times their members click on certain website links. As early as the 1990s, Wallace was one of the strongest defenders of spam. He used to face numerous civil lawsuits for his actions, including the social networking site MySpace and the US Federal Trade Commission. But this time Wallace was facing criminal charges for the first time. Facebook has previously brought Wallace to court for compensation for up to $711 million in economic losses.

Facebook eventually won the lawsuit, and Wallace was permanently banned from using Facebook in the judge's decision. The prosecutor accused Wallace of defying the court because he logged into Facebook on a Virgin Airlines flight from Las Vegas to New York in April 2009.

In addition, Wallace is said to have built a Facebook profile for the user name in January this year with "David Sinful-Saturdays Fredericks". If he is finally found guilty, Wallace will face a prison sentence of 16 years.