‘Spam king’ Sanford Wallace sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for Facebook phishing scam

Self-styled spam king Sanford Wallace was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday for a phishing scam that resulted in the sending of over 27 million messages to Facebook users.

Last August, Wallace admitted to compromising around 500,000 Facebook accounts, using them to send over 27 million spam messages through Facebook’s servers, between November 2008 and March 2009.

Sentencing had been scheduled for last December, but it has taken the court almost a year to reach a sentencing decision.

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