US duo in first spam conviction
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A US brother and sister become the first people criminally convicted of sending spam e-mail.
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A 27-year-old businessman dubbed the "Spam King" pleaded not guilty to charges that he used a network of computers to send millions of unsolicited junk e-mails. Robert Alan Soloway entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
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The US is the originator of over 42% of the worldâs unsolicited commercial e-mail, making it the worst offender in a league table of the top 12 spam producing countries published yesterday by anti-virus firm Sophos.
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It is with mixed emotions that North Carolinians learn that two Raleigh residents are the first Americans to be convicted of felonious spamming.
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A MAN convicted of violating anti-spam laws by sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited emails using fake addresses faces nine years in prison in Virginia, US authorities say.
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Adam Vitale pled guilty to sending junk e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers.
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A lawsuit filed yesterday by the state of Texas charges two men with running spam operations that used misleading subject lines in e-mail messages and made misrepresentations in the body of the e-mails.
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The suits include the first filed by America Online against spammers who use instant messaging, a practice the online industry calls spimming.
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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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Two men pleaded guilty to federal charges in what authorities said were the first convictions for online file-sharing of music, movies and software over peer-to-peer networks.
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EarthLink announced a legal victory in its Alabama Spam Ring lawsuit, which involved two men accused of running a spam distribution center using the company's network.
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DECEMBER 17, 2004  - Two 21-year-old Michigan men were sentenced -- one to nine years and one to 26 months in federal prison -- for conspiring to hack into the IT systems of national home center chain Lowe&#39;s Companies Inc.
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A Florida man and his company will pay a $25,000 fine to settle a spam lawsuit brought in Massachusetts in the first use by a state of the federal CAN-SPAM Act.
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WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- The first known lawsuit against instant-message spam, sometimes called âspim,â was announced by America Online as part of a campaign to stem unwanted computer messages.
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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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A United States man convicted of violating anti-spam laws by sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited emails using fake addresses faces nine years in prison in Virginia.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.