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"Buffalo Spammer" Gets 3.5 to 7 Years
jfruhlinger writes "Howard Carmak, aka the 'Buffalo spammer,' has been sentenced to jail time for his spamming activities. Interestingly, the conviction was not for spamming per se, but rather stealing someone's identity, which he then used to launch his spam messages."
From the article:
The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law, due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case involving fake money orders, McCarthy said.
7 years is the maximum for identity theft? That actually seems a little light. I would think they'd lock him away for 15-20 for something like that. Theft + potentially ruining someone else's credit and/or reputation.
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It serves him right for stealing identities. I am still in counseling for getting that email from my grandma telling me to enlarge my penis.
Evolution or ID?
The old cop trick, cant get em for what the biggest problem is, get them for what you can.
Should be this way more often, arrest spammers for using machines they have no proper access to, not for just for spamming.
How he got caught.
Meanwhile in Jail, inmates have added him to their "My new Bitch" list. Carmak has complained repeatedly that their unsubscribe feature is both inhumane and doesn't work, which has led to arthritis in his right hand.
"The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database collates information and evidence on known hard-line spam operations that have been terminated by a minimum of 3 consecutive Service Providers for serious spam offenses.
200 Known Spam Operations responsible for 90% of your spam.
90% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe can be traced via redirects, hosting locations of web sites, domains and aliases, to a hard-core group of around 200 known spam operations, almost all of whom are listed in the ROKSO database. These spam operations consist of an estimated 500-600 professional spammers loosely grouped into gangs ("spam gangs"), the vast majority of whom are operating illegally, and who move from network to network seeking out Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") known for lax enforcing of anti-spam policies."
Losers choose to abuse the use of "loose".
Didn't we just go through this? All this macho GW Bush "Bring it on" wannabe talk isn't going to do anything but get people killed.
If the death penalty applies to spam, and someone might get caught for spamming, then they may as well just go kill someone while they are at it. Maybe kill the witnesses. It can't increase the severity of the penalty, so why not?
Part of justice is appropriate punishments. Walking with a swagger and carrying a noose might impress people who failed to graduate high school, but it doesn't make us any safer, or freer.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Serious question: why do Americans think prison rape is amusing? Whenever there's a story about someone or other going to prison there's always a comment to be found making light of this; and it's always modded up.
Are you people seriously telling me, that a suitable punishment for spamming is being fucked up the arse?
Why, yes.
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Think of it as a deterrent. "Not only are murder, theft, and rape wrong, but if you're caught, you might have to share a cell with a spammer!"
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>7 years is the maximum for identity theft? That actually seems a little light.
How about seven years and the victims get to pick his cellmate?Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.