Die Spammer Die! OK so maybe only jail....

[CADsortaGUY]

Computer Crimes Unit Makes First Arrests in Va.
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Two North Carolina men face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly operating one of the most prolific spamming operations in the world.
Jeremy Jaynes - who uses the aliases of Jeremy James and Gaven Stubberfield - and Richard Rutowski each face "four felony counts of transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail," Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said Thursday.
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A small step in the right direction.

CkG

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
Computer Crimes Unit Makes First Arrests in Va.
<snip>
Two North Carolina men face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly operating one of the most prolific spamming operations in the world.
Jeremy Jaynes - who uses the aliases of Jeremy James and Gaven Stubberfield - and Richard Rutowski each face "four felony counts of transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail," Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said Thursday.
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A small step in the right direction.

CkG

I saw this on CNN earlier today as was going to post in the Spam thread. I'm curious to know which Spams they were responsible for. This hasn't stopped the Penis Patch Spam from coming in every 2 minutes.

 

[Gaard]

I hope you're replying to every one of those Penis Patch spams Dave. After all, the new law says you 'have to'.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Gaard
I hope you're replying to every one of those Penis Patch spams Dave. After all, the new law says you 'have to'.

Maybe that's why he gets them every two minutes

OKOKOK - I'll stop - I just couldn't resist.

:beer:

CkG

 

[dmcowen674]

The Atlanta paper ran an article about a Spammer. She claims she will go Bankrupt soon but until then she continues to crank out millions of Spam E-mails a day from her home in Slidell, Louisiana.

The report was done by Bill Husted and another reporter. I used to E-mail with Bill years ago when I worked at Hayes Modems. Back then it was News about BBS's, Prodigy and the start up of AOL. Haven't spoken with him since was at Hayes in 1997.

12-14-2003 Spam wars play out across Internet

In the small Louisiana city of Slidell, Flo Fox feeds the hungry by day but spams by night. Fox lays out $1,000 a month for the kind of high-speed Internet connection that businesses and some small Internet service providers use.

She harnesses that power all night using a couple of shopworn computers in her home, spitting out millions of junk e-mails for merchandise ranging from land in Belize to blessed coins.

Fox doesn't own the stuff she sells, but gets paid to pitch it for people who do. These days, she says, she barely gets by, but that's better than nothing. "We're in the computer age," says Fox. "This lets the little guy compete."

More than half of all e-mail traffic this year is junk, experts say...Some are resorting to old lines of communication: the telephone and U.S. Postal Service.

Fox's days of carefree spamming are past, and so is the good money. She worries that bankruptcy is just around the corner and blames the Internet companies -- who have become more adept at filtering out spam.