spammer sent to jail
 

This seems to have gone largely unnoticed, but a New York court has convicted a spammer to between 3.5 and 7 years in jail.

Good news I think...

http://www.sophos.com.au/spaminfo/ar.../spamslam.html

Re: spammer sent to jail
 

Yes, they deserve every second of it :grind:

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It's a shame he wasn't actually jailed for the spamming itself - he went down for identity theft and forgery.

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Yes, I was thinking that myself. But don't the majority of spammers forge email adresses?

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Most tend to forge them these days, although 2 of the biggest spam companies just set up free accounts, and spam from them until the ISP closes them down, then just move on and set up another... :(

I'm pleased that someone has gone to jail for it, but it needs to be made an offence to send spam itself, rather than identity theft...

Re: spammer sent to jail
 

Another spammer sent to jail :D

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Well I seem to have picked up a Russian spammer.I guess they won't be doing anything about them anytime soon... :rolleyes:

I suspect that they are not going to get much success in stopping spam this way as spammers will mostly up sticks and move on.Also there must be countries where spam is not regarded as a crime so there is liitle do be done against them.

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Thank G_d for that, marvellous news. I think the guy should only be fed spam for all of his meals just to get the message home.

Please let's have a few more sent to prison make the worms suffer.



:D

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They all deserve it. Hell, I'm twelve years old, and my cPanel webmail picks up tons and i mean tons of "viagra"-related spam..

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Yes, let's get all the prisons clogged up with white collar criminals so the judges can let more violent ones wander the streets.