A prolific Facebook spammer was sentenced yesterday to two-and-a-half years in prison by a federal judge in San Jose and ordered to pay $310,000 in restitution. The Associated Press reports that the Las Vegas man sent over 27 million spam messages on the social media service.

Sanford Wallace, who The Daily Mail reports called himself the "Spam King," admitted to illegally accessing over a half million Facebook accounts in late 2008 and early 2009, via a phishing scam, and using those accounts to post spam links on the users' friends' Facebook walls. He automated the process, and received payment from sites to which he redirected unsuspecting Facebook users.

Judge Edward Davila, who oversaw the case, also sentenced Wallace to five years probation after completion of his prison sentence. During that time, he will not be allowed to access a computer without the permission of his probation officer.

This was not Wallace's first dive into the world of spam — according to the Mail he once ran a company called Cyber Promotions that in the 1990's sent upwards of 30 million junk emails per day.

Computerworld reports that Wallace could have been sentenced to up to 16 years in prison. He is set to begin his sentence on September 7.

Related: Facebook Users Report Over A Million 'Violations' Every Day

Is Bravo's new show, , about a gaggle of vile, murder-worthy teens so poorly received that they have to resort to spamming a site like SFist? Seems so. See, yesterday on SFist, the following comment popped up on a week-old post about a missive the perturbed chancellor of Dwight School in New York City sent to parents and alumnae concerning said reality show ("Chancellor at NYC Prep School Livid About Bravo Reality Show").

Commenter / likely Bravo PR flack icantstopwatching writes:

It's an enjoyable show if you don't take it seriously -- admittedly, hard to do if you belong to the world it depicts. There's a lot of fun NYC Prep content at BravoTV.com. For instance, there's a fun quiz to see whether you could survive in the Darwinian private-school world of NYC Prep:
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If you're still having trouble telling these teens apart, check out the NYC Prep 101 photo gallery
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Like P.C.'s style? Here's a gallery of his best looks
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And here's P.C.'s therapy session (a video preview from tonight's ep.)
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Wait, who on earth is P.C.? Because we know of L.C. We like L.C. And, P.C., you're no L.C.

Anyway.

Bravo, you're a network littered with nothing but gay men. You really should know better than to post bad fangirl comments on SFist or any other site. Sheesh.

There has just been a confirmed case of swine flu in San Francisco -- yikes!

Our Gmail account efficiently filters out all undesirable emails, but we hear there's been an onslaught of swine flu "miracle cure" email scams seeking to victimize Grandma's AOL account.

We know SFist readers are way too shrewd to fall for this spam nonsense, but it's worth remembering that there currently is no swine flu vaccine in existence. Prescription medications Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir) can reduce the severity of the flu, but they have pretty severe side effects (headaches, nausea, and vomiting) and can potentially reduce drug resistance to the flu. Therefore, taking one of the medications is recommended only if you know you've been in contact with someone who has the swine flu.

For all of us otherwise healthy folks, doctors recommend the following lifelong remedies for staying healthy and thereby boosting our resistance to illness: Sleep, Vitamin D, quitting smoking, and meditation. UV lights and humidifiers are also proven to kill the flu virus, but they also come with certain hazards. UV lights are expensive and can burn your skin, and humidifiers often create mold issues.