US man charged over Facebook spam turns himself in
07-27-2012, 12:00 PM,
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RE: US man charged over Facebook spam turns himself in
(07-26-2012, 06:53 PM)OhioTom76 Wrote: Not to play devils advocate, but if the users voluntarily clicked through his facebook app, annoying as it may be what exactly did he do here that was technically illegal and/or different from what facebook itself does, as well as many other advertisers on there?

Quote:Prosecutors allege he developed a program that breached Facebook spam filters and lured users to submit their account details.

So pretty much, he made a site that looked like Facebook and asked them for their login codes, then he used those to spam other users with the same url. Then he send them to a url that gained him money when people visited it.

That way, he made a lot of money.
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HiddenKnowledge
A.k.a. Yoruichi Shihouin

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RE: US man charged over Facebook spam turns himself in - by HiddenKnowledge - 07-27-2012, 12:00 PM

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