A US human charged with sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users has incited himself in.
Sanford Wallace, who is well known as the "Spam King", surrendered to FBI agents in California.
Prosecutors lay he created a module that breached Facebook spam filters and lured users to contention their account details.
Mr Wallace denies the charges, that bring jail sentences of up to 10 years.
He has been expelled on $100,000 (61,000) bail.
Prosecutors say Mr Wallace's module posted messages on Facebook users walls - purportedly from friends - propelling users to revisit a website where their account sum were then harvested.
They were then redirected to an associate website that warranted Wallace "substantial revenue", the charges say.
The module moreover retrieved lists of Facebook users' friends and posted spam messages on their walls, the complaint adds.
About 500,000 Facebook accounts were compromised between November 2008 and Mar 2009, heading to more than 27 million spam messages being sent, prosecutors said.
Mr Wallace, who is from Las Vegas, is charged with 6 counts of electronic letter fraud, 3 counts of conscious damage to a stable P.C. and two counts of crook contempt.
Facebook sued Mr Wallace in 2009 and a sovereign panel of judges systematic him not to access Facebook's P.C. network. However, prosecutors say he repetitively disregarded that demand progressing this year.
Mr Wallace moreover mislaid a polite box brought against him by MySpace in 2008 over junk messages sent to members of the amicable networking site.
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