Spammers to Get 9 Years in Prison?
Now, I REALLY hate spammers (I get on the order of coupla hundred a day), but giving them nine YEARS of prison just seems a bit extreme, I mean you could kill someone and get less than that. The fact that he made $24 million from spamming though, astounds me, I think the judge should have just fined him an extraordinary amount of money or something…
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A brother and sister in the US have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited email messages – or spam – to AOL subscribers. Jurors in Virginia recommended that the man, Jeremy Jaynes, serve nine years in prison and that his sister, Jessica DeGroot, be fined $7,500.
Jaynes amassed a fortune of $24m from his sales, prosecutors said.
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