« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Nine years in slammer for US spammer  (Read 1109 times)

KernelPanic

  • VIP
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,878
  • Kudos: 222
Nine years in slammer for US spammer
« on: 10 April 2005, 19:00 »
Quote from: "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/08/spammer_faces_slammer/"


By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Friday 8th April 2005 20:53 GMT

A Virginia circuit judge has sentenced a convicted spammer to nine years in jail, the first custodial sentence to be issued to a bulk emailer in the United States. A jury was convinced that Jeremy Jaynes of North Carolina fell foul of a law only enacted two weeks ago.

The spammer, together with his sister (who was sentenced to a small fine) and an accomplice (who was acquitted) was indicted by a Loudon County Grand Jury in December 2003, and convicted late last year.

Jaynes was sending out at least 10 million emails a day using 16 broadband lines, grossing between $400,000 and $700,000 a month on expenses of around $50,000 - a handsome profit. Jaynes snared one punter for around every 30,000 emails sent.

Jaynes is free on bond until the appeal is decided. If it fails, Jeremy Jaynes will be able to offer penis enlargement remedies in prison - a very risky proposition.
Logged
Contains scenes of mild peril.

Orethrius

  • Member
  • **
  • Posts: 1,783
  • Kudos: 982
Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
« Reply #1 on: 10 April 2005, 23:50 »
Quote from: KernelPanic
Ok there might be more interesting things to read, but the Reg made a funny headline!

Cue Master Splinter: "I made a funny!"  :D
Logged

Proudly posted from a Gentoo Linux system.

Quote from: Calum
even if you're renting you've got more rights than if you're using windows.

System Vitals

WMD

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 2,525
  • Kudos: 391
    • http://www.dognoodle99.cjb.net
Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
« Reply #2 on: 11 April 2005, 04:27 »
Quote
Jaynes is free on bond until the appeal is decided. If it fails, Jeremy Jaynes will be able to offer penis enlargement remedies in prison - a very risky proposition.
Logged
My BSOD gallery
"Yes there's nothing wrong with going around being rude and selfish, killing people and fucking married women, but being childish is a cardinal sin around these parts." -Aloone_Jonez

themacuser

  • Member
  • **
  • Posts: 189
  • Kudos: 120
Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
« Reply #3 on: 11 April 2005, 10:23 »
Hahahaha...

Spammed all the way to the big house: Yeah!
Logged
I'm often asked why I hate Microsoft - "What did they ever do to you?". Well, I'll tell you. They made dodgy programs and standards which have wasted hundreds of hours of my time involving lost work in crashes and stupidity.

Lord C

  • Member
  • **
  • Posts: 266
  • Kudos: 15
    • http://www.lordcalvin.co.uk/
Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
« Reply #4 on: 11 April 2005, 16:12 »
LoL, funny story.

I have never understood junk-mailers.
Nobody reads those 'Cheap Online Drugs / Viagra / Fake Bank / Nigerian Immigrant wanted to smuggle money' emails anyway.

Any tech-savvy user has junk filters etc, even newbies just delete these mails as soon as they see the header.

How on earth do they make any money? :S
Logged
Windows [n.]
A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

011000110110000101101100011101100110100101101110
Linux user #348855

Kintaro

  • Member
  • **
  • Posts: 6,545
  • Kudos: 255
  • I want to get the band back together!
    • JohnTate.org
Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
« Reply #5 on: 21 April 2005, 10:09 »
And so many internet users are tech-saavy :rolleyes:
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »