{"id":95561,"date":"2016-06-20T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95561"},"modified":"2016-06-20T16:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:21:19","slug":"man-receives-2-year-prison-sentence-for-spamming-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95561-man-receives-2-year-prison-sentence-for-spamming-on-facebook","title":{"rendered":"Man receives 2 year prison sentence for spamming on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Las Vegas man has received a sentence of 30 months for sending over 27 million spam messages on Facebook, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-15\/2-years-in-prison-for-man-who-sent-spam-to-facebook-users\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sanford Wallace, who also disobeyed a court order to not access Facebook, was ordered to pay <strong>$310,000 (R4,724,617)<\/strong> in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wallace admitted to accessing about 500,000 Facebook accounts and sending unsolicited ads disguised as friend posts over a three-month span.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wallace collected Facebook user account information by sending phishing messages that tricked users into providing their passwords.<\/p>\n<p>He then reportedly used that information to log into their accounts and post spam messages on their friends&#8217; Facebook timelines.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to No more Telkom line rental on your bill \u2014 here is a hard dose of reality\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/95313-no-more-telkom-line-rental-on-your-bill-here-is-a-hard-dose-of-reality.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">No more Telkom line rental on your bill \u2014 here is a hard dose of reality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The coolest tech specials for Father\u2019s Day\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/95443-the-coolest-tech-specials-for-fathers-day.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The coolest tech specials for Father\u2019s Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you still can\u2019t buy online in South Africa and how to get around the restrictions\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94149-games-you-still-cant-buy-online-in-south-africa-and-how-to-get-around-the-restrictions.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you still can\u2019t buy online in South Africa and how to get around the restrictions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why a man received a 30 month prison sentence for spamming on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":95563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[199,19353,18201,15725],"class_list":["post-95561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-facebook","tag-fine","tag-prison","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95617,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95561\/revisions\/95617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}