Jury Finds 2 Guilty of Felony Spam
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Two North Carolina residents yesterday 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
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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AOL helped build a case that led to the conviction of one of the world&#39;s most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes. A state jury in Virginia has recommended a nine-year prison term in the nation&#39;s first felony trial of spam purveyors.
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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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Jail looms A notorious American spammer is heading for jail after a Virginia Appeals Court upheld his conviction and sentence to nine years' imprisonment for junk mail offences.â¦
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By Cynthia McMullen  Last week, I received nearly 700 e-mails, give or take a few spam.  That's a joke; spam accounts for nearly 90 percent of the e-mail I receive at work. And I don't mean the Hormel meat product, Spam, for whom unsolicited commercial mail was named.
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A spammer accused of sending unsolicited mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers pleaded guilty and faces potentially substantial fines and jail time, but one observer said the victory was at best a moral one for AOL.
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Try not to smile: A top spammer may be sentenced to hard time.
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U.S. law enforcement officials promise more spam-related prosecutions.
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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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Adam Vitale pled guilty to sending junk e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers.
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By The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 3--Any individual who engages in and profits from the practice of invading and clogging computers with junk e-mail ought to be prosecuted as severely as the concocter of any criminal conspiracy.
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Blog: A U.S. Justice Department attorney says more criminal prosecutions of spammers are on the way, but will that warning deter would-be junk mailers?
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AP Financial News - Three people who allegedly sent America Online customers millions of junk e-mail messages touting penny stocks and other Internet gimmicks went on trial Tuesday in the nation's first such felony case.
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Spam that includes sexually oriented content viewable in the e-mail message violates the &quot;brown paper wrapper&quot; rules that are part of the CAN-SPAM law, as well as Federal Trade Commission rules.
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A federal grand jury in Detroit has  indicted a Michigan man dubbed the "spam king," and 10 others,  in an international illegal bulk e-mailing and stock fraud  scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Two men have been found guilty of smuggling immigrants in one of the deadliest cases of its kind in the US.