The apply names Spam King, a bloke whose real name is Sanford Wallace has this week been charged on around 11 criminal federal counts in the USA. These charges relate to more than 26 million emails sent unsolicited through the Facebook social network platform. On 7th August 2011 Mr Wallace put his hands in the air and owned up to his scam. More than half a million Facebook users fell into his trap in which the FBI are claiming he mad serious amounts of money doing. Although pleading not guilty the alleged could face over 40 years behind bars for his actions.

The Spam King has been accused of directly login into the Facebook servers and sending messages which appeared to come you from your friends. These contain links to affiliated site which pay by the click. Users clicking the links also had their personal information captured and its feared this has been sold on. Also the hacker could take the list of friends and continue to spam these people.

His activities continued throughout 2008 and 2009 however this hasn’t been an isolated case. It is believed that Mr Wallace has been the head of many a spamming organisation all he way since the mid 1990’s and as well as being such a popular platform as Facebook it is idea for guys like this to continue their criminal activity. There is only one approach: to be ultra vigilant, double check and think twice before clicking links from anyone, even your friends on Facebook.