First prosecution for spam

15 years in the slammer

[Essex_boy]

Appears they were not only spamming but seling hot air as well.

[ecommercetimes.com...]

[oilman]

sounds more like they are being nailed from the outright fraud rather than the actual spam but the spam was the open door to prosecution

[jsinger]

This ought to put a stop to it :)

"In one month alone, Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders, each for $39.95, for the processor."

[Essex_boy]

I saw that and the figures keep rolling through my head, thats a lot of money.

[jsinger]

Heck, even if they never process the credit cards related to the scam, they get an email list that's worth a fortune.

Reminds me of an article the WSJ did on spammers about 2 years ago. They quoted one lady as saying she made $100,000 a year mass emailing fairly honest stuff from her NY apartment. Then the article said it wasn't 'Nice' to spam people.

[SkyDog]

Their convictions have about 99.9% to do with fraud, nothing to do with spam as the article would indicate. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but lets try to get our facts straight.

[jsinger]

The fraud would never have worked without massive emailing. Certainly not on that scale.