<p>Often dubbed the 'Spam King', Sandford Wallace from Las Vegas has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing half a million Facebook accounts and sending over 27 million spam messages on its servers in 2008 and 2009, Engadget.com reported.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Wallace had already been ordered by the United States District Court Northern District of California in San Jose not to access Facebook's network when he committed the crime. <br /><br />He also pleaded guilty to violating that order at his trial on August 24. He faces a possible three-year jail sentence and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in December.<br /><br />He started a company called SmartBot, which infected people's computers with viruses and then pushed a pop-up to suggest using its own software to remove it.<br /><br />The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a suit against him in 2004 and in 2006 he was ordered to pay $4 million as penalty.<br /><br />He tried his controversial spamming methods again on Facebook until the social network filed a suit against him in 2009. <br /><br />The judge ruled that Wallace owed Facebook $711 million. But Wallace didn't pay the Facebook any fine.<br /><br />Eventually, a judge in California requested that Wallace be investigated by the FBI for criminal contempt to finally put an end to his activities.<br /><br />The FBI investigation unearthed that Wallace had sent 27 million pieces of spam from 500,000 compromised Facebook accounts from 143 proxied IP addresses. <br /></p>
<p>Often dubbed the 'Spam King', Sandford Wallace from Las Vegas has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing half a million Facebook accounts and sending over 27 million spam messages on its servers in 2008 and 2009, Engadget.com reported.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Wallace had already been ordered by the United States District Court Northern District of California in San Jose not to access Facebook's network when he committed the crime. <br /><br />He also pleaded guilty to violating that order at his trial on August 24. He faces a possible three-year jail sentence and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in December.<br /><br />He started a company called SmartBot, which infected people's computers with viruses and then pushed a pop-up to suggest using its own software to remove it.<br /><br />The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a suit against him in 2004 and in 2006 he was ordered to pay $4 million as penalty.<br /><br />He tried his controversial spamming methods again on Facebook until the social network filed a suit against him in 2009. <br /><br />The judge ruled that Wallace owed Facebook $711 million. But Wallace didn't pay the Facebook any fine.<br /><br />Eventually, a judge in California requested that Wallace be investigated by the FBI for criminal contempt to finally put an end to his activities.<br /><br />The FBI investigation unearthed that Wallace had sent 27 million pieces of spam from 500,000 compromised Facebook accounts from 143 proxied IP addresses. <br /></p>