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Siblings Guilty of Spam Felony, Partner Acquitted

Posted by timothy on from the the-wrath-of-aol dept.

saikou writes "According to AP Story (via SF Chronicle), brother and sister spammers just got convicted 'in the nation's first felony prosecution of distributors of spam,' while third suspect was acquitted. Jurors moved on to figuring out appropriate punishment (please, please, please give them some jail time. Pretty please). More spam cases for Virgina?"

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  1. Felony conviction? by autocracy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I hope that the law they were convicted under had something to do with fraud written in it besides just sending untracable e-mail. Among all the other dumb things our country is doing, we're charging everything as a felony, no matter what the crime or reality behind it.

    The credit card orders make this definitely a fraud case, but if that same punishment was applicable without the fraud... I can't lookup the law as the article doesn't mention it, but I'm very afraid.

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  2. Wow. by Commander+Trollco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One hopes that this will have an effect, if not deterring, at least taking one offender out of the equation(if jailed/executed).

    This tidbit was less promising: "Prosecutors compared Jaynes and DeGroot, both of the Raleigh, N.C., area, to modern-day snake-oil salesmen who used the Internet to peddle junk like a 'FedEx refund processor' that supposedly allowed people to earn $75 an hour while working from home."
    People are still biting on frauds of all sort, and the internet has become the prime location for it.
    There is no real solution to stupidity, at least until designer babies are a reality.

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