Spammer goes to jail
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Jason Caminiti
In more good news on the spam front, a spammer from New York goes to jail for spamming to AOL. He was order to pay 180k to AOL in restitution. I don’t see that as a good enough amount, but at least he gets 30 months in the slammer. Maybe this will make spammers think twice about their line of work.
Based on other information we’ve seen about spam recently, I wonder how much money he was making on spam. I wonder if the IRS will be looking into his finances. It seems low to only charge him 180k for his crimes. What about all the money he must have made on this scheme? Unless he wasn’t very good I guess.
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