Spammers sentenced in Virginia under tough spam law
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Across the Internet a muffled cheer rises to greet the news of a spammer sentenced to a nine-year prison term for sending junk mail to AOL customers in the Virginia-prosecuted case against
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Virginia's law banning the massive distribution of junk e-mail is an unconstitutional barrier to free speech, a lawyer for a former spammer told the state's highest court Wednesday.
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A brother and sister who sent unsolicited junk e-mail to millions of America Online customers were convicted Wednesday in the nation&#39;s first felony prosecution of distributors of spam.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia's law banning the massive distribution of junk e-mail is an unconstitutional barrier to free speech, a lawyer for a former spammer told the state's highest court Wednesday.
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Two spammers have been convicted of three charges of sending thousands of junk e-mails through servers located in Virginia. Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison and Jessica DeGroot was fined $7,500 (Â£4,075).
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A brother and sister who sent junk e-mail to millions of America Online customers were convicted yesterday in the nation&#39;s first felony prosecution of Internet spam distributors.
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Three people have pleaded guilty to charges related to spam e-mail that promised U.S. victims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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Nov 03, 2004 -- A Loudoun County Circuit Court jury convicted a brother and sister from North Carolina on three counts each of sending spam and acquitted the third co-defendant in the nationâs first felony spam trial that ended Wednesday.
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U.S. Internet users should expect a growing number of prosecutions for sending spam and related activities, such as creating botnets, officials with two U.S. law enforcement organizations said Thursday.
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Plus: Spammers go to jail, and laptops get LED backlights.
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Two North Carolina residents Wednesday became the first people in the nation to be convicted on felony spamming charges after a Loudoun County jury found that they flooded tens of thousands of America Online e-mail accounts with unsolicited e-mail, prosecutors said. -The Washington Post
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Members of a "pump-and-dump" spam group face prison terms, civil charges filed by the SEC.
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A judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law &#151; the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail &#151; is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders.
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Spammers have turned to the use of PDF-based e-mail messages to try to slip under the security radar and get their messages through to unsuspecting recipients.
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If you can&#39;t stop &#39;em, sue &#39;em. That&#39;s what Microsoft has announced they are doing to seven spammers who are accused of sending unrequested e-mails with visible pornography to hundreds of thousands of internet users.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation&#39;s ban on spam. The highest single fine - for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e
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Prosecutors say the trial is the nation's first felony prosecution of spammers and could lead to future litigation in the fight against spam, which experts say accounts for more than 70 percent of e-mails.