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."
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