Judge Sentences Spammer to Nine Years

[Kaido]

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A jury had recommended the nine-year prison term after convicting Jeremy Jaynes of pumping out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need.

Jaynes, of Raleigh, N.C., told the judge that regardless of how the appeal turns out, "I can guarantee the court I will not be involved in the e-mail marketing business again."

He was making good money, too - up to $750,000 per month, and is considered one of the top 10 spammers in the world.

All I have to say is, yay 🙂 hopefully this will result as less spam in my box.

 

[SynthDude2001]

:thumbsup:

 

[Miramonti]

Excellent. I think I was the recipient of most of his emails too.

 

[Snapster]

Hopefully more will follow.... 🙂

 

[zoiks]

Glad that yahoo gets to experience exactly what he deserves.

 

[Baked]

Finally. Now for the spyware making assholes.

 

[GRIFFIN1]

I hope he has to take it up the booty 10 million times a day.

 

[StageLeft]

Should have put him to death for bugging me.

 

[weirdichi]

That's a lot of moolah! <Homer_Simpson> Spamming eh.... hmm... </Homer_Simpson>

 

[PanzerIV]

Hahaha! That greedy little bastard is getting what he deserves. I don't feel one bit sorry for the idiot.

 

[conjur]

teh w00t!

 

[DnetMHZ]

He'll regret promoting all those penile enhancers pretty soon! 😉

 

[BooGiMaN]

9 million a year..no wonder he turned to the darkside....

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
He'll regret promoting all those penile enhancers pretty soon! 😉

lol, do they make it into prisons? 😀

 

[rhino56]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Should have put him to death for bugging me.

hahahaha exactly, kill the worthless scumbag trying to make money unethically.

 

[dr150]

I have K9 to fend off his attacks

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
:thumbsup:

 

[dethman]

it'll be down to one year with good behavior on appeal.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

next they are going to procecute people for neffin!!! Oh, Noooess!!!!!!!!11

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Kaido
All I have to say is, yay 🙂 hopefully this will result as less spam in my box.

he stopped spamming awhile ago. but hopefully others will live in fear of the punishment.

 

[Schadenfreude]

wowee . . . $750,000 a MONTH?!

 

[Sunbird]

How do hell do spammers make money??!!

 

[ToeJam13]

This is just a drop in the bucket. There are thousands of big-league spammers in the world.

Jeremy Jaynes was simply a greedy, unscrupulous businessman peddling junk products. His replacement will most likely be a member of an organized crime gang out to commit identity theft or worse. Better yet, his replacement will most likely be based outside the US.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Excellent! /burns

 

[chiwawa626]

Jaynes was convicted in November for using false Internet addresses and aliases to send mass e-mail ads through an AOL server in Loudoun County, where America Online is based. Under Virginia law, sending unsolicited bulk e-mail itself is not a crime unless the sender masks his identity.

While prosecutors presented evidence of just 53,000 illegal e-mails, authorities believe Jaynes was responsible for spewing out 10 million e-mails a day. Prosecutors said Jaynes made millions of dollars from the illegal venture.

So, you can be a legit spammer, you just can't fake your identity?