Spammer gets 9 years

Jury recommends 9 year sentence for convicted spammer.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Highlights from the article:

-"Relatively few people actually responded to Jaynes' pitches. In a typical month, prosecutors said during the trial, Jaynes might receive 10,000 to 17,000 credit card orders, thus making money on perhaps only one of every 30,000 e-mails he sent out.

But he earned $40 a pop, and the undertaking was so vast that Jaynes could still pull in $400,000 to $750,000 a month, while spending perhaps $50,000 on bandwidth and other overhead, McGuire said.

"When you're marketing to the world, there are enough idiots out there" who will be suckered in, McGuire said in an interview."

-"Jaynes got lists of e-mail addresses -- millions of them -- through a stolen database of America Online customers. He also illegally obtained e-mail addresses of users of the online auction site eBay."

-"I was surprised at how simple his operation was," Levine said. "If he were more clever, it would have been much harder to catch him."

The most interesting thing about this story is not that he was convicted for 'spamming' per say but rather, he was convicted for the 'methods' he used during his spamming.

Regards,

Lee

Damn,that's a lot,but spam is really nad thing to do...