Spammer gets nine years

[CAPAIRMAN 0]

Quote[/b] ]LEESBURG, VIRGINIA - A man in North Carolina whom anti-spam organizations call one of the world's 10 most prolific spammers has been sentenced to nine years in jail.

INDEPTH: Spam

 

But Jeremy Jaynes won't have to begin serving time right away. The judge ordered the sentence deferred until an appeals court deals with constitutional issues raised by Virginia's tough anti-spam law.

It was the first felony prosecution in the U.S. relating to the growing problem of spam.

Jaynes was convicted of sending millions of unsolicited e-mails that peddled pornography or sham products, such as the "FedEx refund processor" that supposedly allowed people to earn $75 an hour from home.

Prosecutors said Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders in one month for the processor, each for $39.95 US.

Jaynes was prosecuted under a 2003 Virginia law that prohibits the mass sending of unsolicited e-mails when the origin is masked.

Virginia asserted jurisdiction because the e-mail traffic was routed through AOL's servers in Virginia.

A jury had recommended a nine-year sentence when Jaynes was convicted in November.

The prosecution had asked for the maximum 15 years. Prosecutors said Jaynes was making $500,000 US a month from his spamming activities and had assets of $24 million US.

Bout time. I hope there will be many more spammers convicted.

[gandalf the white 0]

hmm, it was a smart idea to include the ammount of money he made...

Anyhow, those millions wont help him now, will they?

[billybob2002 0]

I thought they arrested Avonlady.

THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT.

To escape the mods: This conviction will not deter other spammers just like the p2p lawsuits. Too much "money" is involved.

[EiZei 0]

Jesus christ, 9 years?

[blackdog~ 0]

One of my favorite of spam is stuff like the shit that's in some other language that I don't even understand!

Oh, can't forget all the emails that are from some of my good friends like Concurring E. Diviner, Odin H. Noncombatant, Scrounged Q. Grieves, Scab V. Rainier, Sheep H. Headlong, Speculations S. Quintette... etc... I swear to god emails from these "people" always are ads in the form of obscure poetry.

And one I got today was like this:

From: "Aldo Ashley" <orlwwzi@aeri.com>

Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 4:12 PM

Subject: Child obesity growing in rural America

Hello

We tried to contact you earlier about flnanclng your home at a lower rate

I would like to let you know that we have gone ahead and started the preapproval process,

Here are the results:

Negotiable Amount: $237,000 to $831,000

For more information or to have a broker contact you please visit:

[Radnik 18]

Jesus christ, 9 years?

... Jesus christ, $500.000 US a month ... i would by an island, and my own AA systems, ...

...wait, i would allso by a BIS better PC`s and studio and ...

[Victor_S. 0]

He probably wouldnt serve more than 3. He would get out on probation.

[Guest]

Prisoner: So what are you in for?

Spammer: Spamming.

Prisoner: *blink*

[theavonlady 2]

I thought they arrested Avonlady.

Me too!

[Kuja- 0]

meh. Given that I've never had a single spam in my ISP inbox, I don't think that spam is a problem, or at least it is one that can be trivially avoided. If he was making $500,000 from the sheer credulity and stupidity of people who not only read spam but are enticed into buying the product, then more power to him. Fools and their money ...

[gandalf the white 0]

meh. Given that I've never had a single spam in my ISP inbox, I don't think that spam is a problem, or at least it is one that can be trivially avoided. If he was making $500,000 from the sheer credulity and stupidity of people who not only read spam but are enticed into buying the product, then more power to him. Fools and their money ...

*opens inbox*

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I'm lucky to have only one of em, the top that I have recieved is perhaps 10 mails a day, but those days are over .

Still, emails like this are plain annoying, especially for those who get tons of them PER DAY in their mailbox, after a few weeks you just click the top one, press shift, click on the last one, and press delete...

"Hey! remember we signed up for that job interview? I got a reply! what about you?"

"...oh ehm.... could be... didn't looked"

[Badgerboy 0]

meh.  Given that I've never had a single spam in my ISP inbox, I don't think that spam is a problem, or at least it is one that can be trivially avoided.  If he was making $500,000 from the sheer credulity and stupidity of people who not only read spam but are enticed into buying the product, then more power to him.  Fools and their money ...

Yes, but by time it gets to your email box its filtered. The amount of traffic spam creates around the internet is enormous, and puts extra load on the backbones and ISP servers.

Go US, about time someone sorted this out.

[theavonlady 2]

Go US, about time someone sorted this out.

Why bother?!

Quote[/b] ]Internet Users More Accepting of Spam

Sun Apr 10,10:45 PM ET Technology - AP

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

NEW YORK - We're not any less annoyed by spam. We're just more accepting of it. So says a study released Sunday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Fifty-three percent of adult e-mail users in the United States now say they trust e-mail less because of spam, down from 62 percent a year ago and about the same as a June 2003 Pew survey.

Pew also found that 22 percent of e-mail users say they are spending less time on e-mail because of spam, down from 29 percent last year. In 2003, it was 25 percent.

"This shows some level of tolerance that people are manifesting," said Deborah Fallows, a senior research fellow at Pew and the study's author. "Maybe it's their getting used to it. Maybe it's like other annoying things in life — air pollution, traffic — they are just learning to live with it."

Pornographic spam is on the decline, replaced by fraudulent "phishing" scams aimed at stealing bank passwords and other sensitive information, the study finds.

There was little change in what people do to reduce spam.

About the same percentage avoid giving out e-mail addresses or set up special addresses when they believe they might attract spam. In fact, a lower percentage avoid posting e-mail addresses on Web sites, where spammers often collect addresses for their mailings.

However, there was a slight increase in the percentage of e-mail users who set up hard-to-guess addresses — such as "joe342d3x" — to make it more difficult for dictionary attacks, in which spammers try to send junk to any address they could think of by trying various combinations of words found in the dictionary.

The telephone-based survey of 1,421 Internet users was conducted Jan. 13 to Feb. 9 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

[EiZei 0]

Go US, about time someone sorted this out.

Yes. Yet another prisoner in the already humongous US prisoner population. Maybe he will start something more conventional afterwards, like selling drugs or killing people and get a HIV infection to boot.

[Guest]

Would you like a faster net connection for free? If there was no spam you WOULD notice the difference...

[Badgerboy 0]

Go US, about time someone sorted this out.

Yes. Yet another prisoner in the already humongous US prisoner population. Maybe he will start something more conventional afterwards, like selling drugs or killing people and get a HIV infection to boot.

If some bastard round here started stuffing 100's of envelopes of crap through my letter box attempting to sell me stuff/steal my bank details/or offer me 16 million dollars, I would be not to impressed and would ask that the authorities take action to stop this person from doing so.

Email is the same thing, except my letter box is electronic. Why the hell should I have to put up with spam clogging up my mailbox?

As for prison, hopefully he'll get shanked in the showers....

[EiZei 0]

Go US, about time someone sorted this out.

Yes. Yet another prisoner in the already humongous US prisoner population. Maybe he will start something more conventional afterwards, like selling drugs or killing people and get a HIV infection to boot.

If some bastard round here started stuffing 100's of envelopes of crap through my letter box attempting to sell me stuff/steal my bank details/or offer me 16 million dollars, I would be not to impressed and would ask that the authorities take action to stop this person from doing so.

Email is the same thing, except my letter box is electronic. Why the hell should I have to put up with spam clogging up my mailbox?

My isssue here is not that he is being punished. My issue is that he is being given 9 years of prison.

Having to pay up a shitload of money gotten from his illicit businesses and spending ~1-2 years in the slammer would be more appropriate in my opinion.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Of course it depends weether this specific spammer was actually responsible for Defraud or whether he simply mailed advertisements.

shitload of spam in our mail accounts cannot cause sincere physical or mental damages. So putting him into prison for 9 years would not justified

BUT

There Spam is also causing damage to the industry related with the internet. Spam arrives everywhere, not just in private households but also in companies and eats up resources and time.

Secondly this spammer sold a tool for 45 Dollar called "FedEx Refund Processor" Description which would make you earn 75Dollars an hour but didnt and therefore was clear defraud!

In Germany a manager got 9 years for putting 30 Mio Euro company assets into his own pocket. Dont you think that spammer caused a simmillar amount of damage?

Jeremy Jaynes send out 10 Million Spam mails A DAY. He had a turnover of 750.000 dollars a month. And more than 10.000 users bought his silly program "Fed Ex Refund Processor" for 40$ each.

Yes, 9 year is not only a strict punishment but it is also highly justified and correspons with the scale of punishements given in simillar cases

[EiZei 0]

Of course it depends weether this specific spammer was actually responsible for Defraud or whether he simply mailed advertisements.

shitload of spam in our mail accounts cannot cause sincere physical or mental damages. So putting him into prison for 9 years would not justified

BUT

There Spam is also causing damage to the industry related with the internet. Spam arrives everywhere, not just in private households but also in companies and eats up resources and time.

Secondly this spammer sold a tool for 45 Dollar called "FedEx Refund Processor" Description which would make you earn 75Dollars an hour but didnt and therefore was clear defraud!

In Germany a manager got 9 years for putting 30 Mio Euro company assets into his own pocket. Dont you think that spammer caused a simmillar amount of damage?

Jeremy Jaynes send out 10 Million Spam mails A DAY. He had a turnover of 750.000 dollars a month. And more than 10.000 users bought his silly program "Fed Ex Refund Processor" for 40$ each.

Yes, 9 year is not only a strict punishment but it is also highly justified and correspons with the scale of punishements given in simillar cases

Then he should be convicted for fraud AND spamming. 9 years just for spamming seems rather harsh still.

[kerosene 0]

9 years does seem massive, but he made most of his money fraudulently?

'Cause "man gets 9 years for $20 millon fraud" dosent sound that shocking, personally I never had a lot of sympathy for people dumb enough or greedy enough to give their money away to obvious cons (I used to have to talk to them for a living.)

I agree assets confiscated and a couple of years in prison, mabye 5, although he should get some time off for good behaviour, I doubt he'll be getting up to much inside.

On the other hand, some kid got life in prison for selling a couple of ounces of weed to cop in Alabama, so mabye this dick should get 9.

I don't know as much about intrnet fraud as postal fraud, but when you send money they move you to a sucker list and sell that on or use it with more fake companies from the same guy, some old people will piss away everything they have. (They were the only ones I ever really bad for.) Altohugh internet fraud probably affect youngish/middle aged people more than the elderly.

Do they have "soft" prisons for white collar criminals and petty criminals in the U.S? If there is, thats were he'll be going.

[dmakatra 1]

Spamming is annoying as hell, but dude, nine years!? Like, murders get that long punishment in Sweden!

[Guest]

I have absolutely no problems with him getting 9 years.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Spamming is annoying as hell, but dude, nine years!? Like, murders get that long punishment in Sweden!

yes but in sweden prisons look like this

and prison cells look like this

[theavonlady 2]

If they were really smart, they'd make the punishment fit the crime by giving this guy over his 9 year term, three times a day, nothing but just one food for him to eat - yep - Spam. That ought to make the remaining spammers think one last time before they're next.

[Acecombat 0]

If they were really smart, they'd make the punishment fit the crime by giving this guy over his 9 year term, three times a day, nothing but just one food for him to eat - yep - Spam. That ought to make the remaining spammers think one last time before they're next.

I agree and whats with the whole softy thing ? The guy committed a crime he got what he was asking for. 9 years for fraud/stealing/spamming sounds good enough to me.

Let this be a lesson for other such spammers. My yahoo inbox gets in-undated with crap emails from all over the place i have delete them all manually and sift through it for valid ones. What did i do to get this crap shoved in my box? And why does this dumb nut has to do it? Obviously he makes money out of such illegal means. 9 yrs seem a bit too eas considering the easy jail life he'll probably get to live in.