This is what you get for sending 27 million Facebook messages

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by Sindy Cator on August 25, 2015 at 1:55 pm

Bill Gates promised the world in 2004 that within two years there would be no more spam. This hasn’t been one of his more successful prediction, sadly. Fast forward 11 years and a Las Vegas man has just pleaded guilty to sending over 27 million spam messages on Facebook’s own servers in 2008 and 2009, after he illegally accessed half a million accounts on the social network. Dubbed the ‘Spam King’, Sandford Wallace was already 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. He also pleaded guilty…