In fact, Facebook has been demanding this man in 2009. A man known as 'King of Spam' in the social networking site Facebook finally surrendered to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was finally released after ordered to pay a fine of $ 100 thousand or about Rp855 million.
The man named Sanford Wallace was surrendered to the FBI headquarters in California, USA, as quoted from page CNN Friday, August 5, 2011. Prosecutors accuse this man has created a program that can penetrate up spam filters and persuade users to provide account details.
Wallace refused 10-year prison sentence imposed upon him the charge. Finally, he was released after ordered to pay a fine of $ 100 thousand or Rp855 million.
Prosecutors said the program made by Wallace to send a message walled account users, who urged the account owner to visit a web page where they can be stolen account details. After that, users will be redirected to other sites that could generate some money for Wallace.
The program also stolen data to its users and the number of friends to send spam messages in the 'wall' them. During November 2008 to March 2009, there were approximately 500 thousand account up to be victims of this man from Las Vegas. That means, already around 27 million spam messages sent on Facebook.
Wallace snared six counts of fraud via electronic mail, three counts of willful destruction of a protected computer, and two counts of criminal acts.
In fact, Facebook has been demanding this man in 2009, and the high court had ordered her not to access Facebook. But this man was still stubborn by not heeding the order.
Wallace had previously been involved similar cases in the social networking site MySpace in 2008. He sends large amounts of spam messages on MySpace users
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