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Title: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
Post by: KernelPanic 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.
Title: Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
Post by: Orethrius 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
Title: Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
Post by: WMD on 11 April 2005, 04:27
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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.
Title: Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
Post by: themacuser on 11 April 2005, 10:23
Hahahaha...

Spammed all the way to the big house: Yeah!
Title: Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
Post by: Lord C 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
Title: Re: Nine years in slammer for US spammer
Post by: Kintaro on 21 April 2005, 10:09
And so many internet users are tech-saavy :rolleyes: