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US spammer gets lengthy jail term
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Break...l?oneclick=true

An American spammer has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sending millions of unsolicited emails, after a ground-breaking court case which exposed the high income that can be made from the trade.
Jeremy Jaynes, 30, became the first spammer to be prosecuted for a serious crime under new legislation.

The multimillionaire "modern-day snake-oil salesman", as the prosecution dubbed him, was considered the eighth most prolific spammer in the world, sending up to 10 million emails a day from his house in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Jaynes banked up to $US750,000 ($A970,000) a month from his emails, which advertised pornography, fake products and services, and promoted work-at-home schemes, prosecutors said.

He bought two homes, paying more than $US1 million for one property, bought a steak restaurant and invested in a chain of gyms.

Prosecutors believe Jaynes amassed up to $US24 million, even though they estimated that he made money on perhaps only one in 30,000 emails.

He sent so many emails, using addresses from a list apparently stolen from America Online (AOL), that he received 10,000 to 17,000 credit card orders a month - each worth an average of $US40.

"When you're marketing to the world, there are enough idiots out there who will be suckered in," said Virginia's assistant attorney-general Russell McGuire, who prosecuted Jaynes. Judge Thomas Horne said the jury's recommended sentence reflected public sentiment about spamming and its "tremendous societal costs".

He delayed the start of Jaynes' jail term pending an appeal, saying the new anti-spam law had constitutional ramifications.

Jaynes was convicted in November of using false addresses and aliases to send mass emails via an AOL server in Loudoun County, Virginia.




woot stole this article from someone that posted it on clantemplates.com

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lol this guy made so much money for spamming lol he kinda decrives to got to prision lol plus the poor dumb people thta agve him there credit card
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Wow people are really serious bout stuff like that now adays, you gotta be a big moron though to fall for summin like that.....if it seems too good to be true it probably is.

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lol i wonder if we could send people to jail for spamming on forums :P not only sending a few billion spam emails :/

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Yeah now there is a law against that and it's a federal crime to do it.

I hate them cause there are a lot of 'phishing' e-mails now adays and it makes me never open an e-mail that I don't know who it's from or someone that I bought something from.

But even then now adays there are ways that you can make it look like someone else sent it in like 15 SECS. =(

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