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Spammer Sanford Wallace Goes to Federal Prison for Being an Asshat

Sanford Wallace, known as one of the two Spam Kings after Scott Richter, has been placed back in prison after not learning a lesson about spamming. Despite already being in huge trouble with the feds, and being told never to spam and harass people again, Mr. Wallace decided to become a club promoter in Las Vegas.

Well, since 2009 he has been under a court order to not access computers without his probation officer, but instead of following the rules, he has been using Facebook to promote clubs in the Las Vegas area. This is in direct violation of the Court Order by the Judge and may end him with additional time in the future.

[It’s] the first time Wallace has ever been convicted of a crime, but it’s definitely not the first time he’s been punished for spamming. … Total damages assessed against King approach $1 billion.

He has agreed to pay back all the money he gained, $310,000 in payments over several years plus will once again agree never to spam. He faced three years in jail, but was only sentenced to 2 and a half years, and might only serve a small part of it. The DOJ happily shared:

 in restitution for sending millions of spam messages to Facebook users and disobeying a court order not to access Facebook. [It’s] in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1037(a)(1) and (b)(2)(A); and…18 U.S.C. § 401(3).  Wallace illegally obtained, stored, and exploited Facebook user account information. [He] created an automated process to sign into a Facebook user’s account, retrieve a list of all of the user’s friends, and then send a message to each of [them. … He] will begin serving the sentence on September 7, 2016.

Pesach Lattin
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Pesach "Pace" Lattin is one of the top experts in interactive advertising, affiliate marketing. Pesach Lattin is known for his dedication to ethics in marketing, and focus on compliance and fraud in the industry, and has written numerous articles for publications from MediaPost, ClickZ, ADOTAS and his own blogs.

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