Facebook's usually really good about fighting spammers and multiple accounts from what I've seen. Early community was facebook was filled with spammers but it's much harder to find spam accounts nowadays. Basically every account I encounter is real....I wonder what crazy thing he had to do to get 500k spam accounts
It doesn't say they're spam accounts -- more likely good accounts taken over, which accounts for some of the fraud.
I made a nice bit of money spamming those early community pages. . . Ahh yes the good 'ole days.
The technical term is not "made", but something more like "stole". If you put $1 in your pocket while wasting $10 (or, more likely, $100 or $1000) of other people's time, then you're not a productive citizen, you're a parasite.
He gained access to 500k accounts... so I'm roughly guessing that he sent a message to every friend people had on each one of those accounts.
Yeah, that bit of information is more interesting. Did he get the access illegally? Why was that not a crime, but sending the messages was? Something is off here.
Him getting access was the fraud part of the charges. The spamming was covered under the contempt part, because he was under court orders to not use facebook due to prior spamming.