04-10-05 10:46 PM
"Yrjo Turkka" <ebizNOSPAM@soon.com> wrote in message
news:ayU2e.5409$UA1.1335@reader1.news.jippii.net...
A man convicted in the nation's first felony case against illegal spamming w
as
sentenced to nine years in prison Friday for bombarding Internet users with
millions of junk e-mails.
Jeremy Jaynes, who was considered among the top 10 spammers in the world at
the
time of his arrest, used the Internet to peddle pornography and sham product
s and
services such as a "FedEx refund processor," prosecutors said. Thousands of
people
fell for his e-mails, and prosecutors said Jaynes' operation grossed up to
$750,000 per month.
Jaynes, 30, was convicted in November for using false Internet addresses and
aliases to send mass e-mail ads through an AOL server in Loudoun County, whe
re
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, authori
ties
believe Jaynes was responsible for spewing out 10 million e-mails a day.
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