The King of Spam has pleaded guilty and is now awaiting a court decision

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Yesterday, 47-year-old American spammer Sanford Wallace, also known as the “King of Spam,” pleaded guilty to a legal charge of illegally sending unsolicited messages to Facebook users. So far, Spambord, the second nickname for Wallace, is due to appear on December 7 this year at the San Francisco District Court to reach a verdict. Wallace faces a three-year sentence and a fine of $ 250,000. In addition, the man admitted that he could not bear it and violated the court’s ban on using Facebook, for which he will be sentenced to a separate sentence.

The story of the arrest of the King of Spam began in October 2009, when he was arrested by FBI agents from the White Collar department. Wallace was charged with illegally gaining access to more than half a million Facebook accounts for about six months and sending out nearly 27 million personal messages with them. They contained links where Wallace victims went to sites that used the King of Spam services and paid deductions to him. On Facebook itself, they decided not to ignore such a large-scale operation and filed a lawsuit against Wallace for $ 711 million, which, however, it could not pay, citing its bankruptcy. Pleading guilty

Wallace is an experienced spammer with a fairly long history.. He founded his first company “Cyberpromo” back in 1995, intending to engage in advertising mailings legally by mail and fax. A little later, he added “e-mail spam” to his services, but already in 1998 the company broke up due to financial insolvency and the first problems with the law from its owner, who was already denied access to the Internet. Nevertheless, Wallace did not stop spamming illegally, while working as a DJ in nightclubs under the pseudonym DJ MasterWeb. Around the same time, he invented another way to earn money: Wallace infected users' computers with viruses, and then took money for treatment. It also led to another trial with a substantial fine.