-=PCTechTalk=- US spammer gets lengthy jail term
- From: "Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." <rdulaneyjr@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
US spammer gets lengthy jail term
By Philip Sherwell
Washington
April 11, 2005
An American spammer has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sending
millions of unsolicited emails after a ground-breaking court case which exposed
the high income to be made from the trade.
Jeremy Jaynes, 30, became the first spammer to be prosecuted for a serious
crime under new legislation.
The multimillionaire "modern-day snake-oil salesman", as the prosecution dubbed
him, was considered the eighth most prolific spammer in the world, sending up
to 10million emails a day from his house in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Jaynes banked up to $US750,000 ($A970,000) a month from his emails, which
peddled pornography, fake products and services, and promoted work-at-home
schemes, prosecutors said. He bought two homes, paying more than $US1million
for one property, bought a steak restaurant and invested in a chain of gyms.
Prosecutors believe Jaynes amassed up to $US24million, even though they
estimated that he made money on perhaps only one in 30,000 emails.
He sent so many emails, using addresses from a list apparently stolen from
America Online (AOL), that he received 10,000 to 17,000 credit card orders a
month - each worth an average of $US40.
"When you're marketing to the world, there are enough idiots out there who will
be suckered in," said Virginia's assistant attorney-general Russell McGuire,
who prosecuted Jaynes. Judge Thomas Horne said the jury's recommended sentence
reflected public sentiment about spamming and its "tremendous societal costs".
He delayed the start of Jaynes' jail term pending an appeal, saying the new
anti-spam law had constitutional ramifications.
Jaynes was convicted in November of using false addresses and aliases to send
mass emails via an AOL server in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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