According to federal officials, Sanford Wallace, a Nevada man, pleaded guilty Monday to sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users.

Wallace admitted in federal court to accessing about 500,000 Facebook accounts and sending unsolicited ads disguised as friend posts over a three-month span.

This is another case where a phishing scheme was used to gets Facebook users to giving out their passwords. According to the indictment, he then used that information to log into their accounts and post spam messages on their friends' Facebook walls. If the users clicked on the spam links, they were taken to websites that paid Wallace for the traffic.

Wallace is free on bond and scheduled to be sentenced in December. He faces a $250,000 fine and up to three years in prison.

Source: Windstream.net