Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 8, 2005 @08:16AM from the should-have-been-a-year-for-each-email dept.

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, NC now has the dubious honor of being the first spammer sentenced to jail for the felony of spamming. Virginia judge Thomas Horne sentenced Jaynes to 9 years in prison based on a jury recommendation after he was convicted of sending out 10 million e-mails a day. Jaynes, who sent out much of his spam using the name "Gaven Stubberfield", has held a position on the SpamHaus Registry of Known Spam Operations for a long time. Unfortunately the sentence has been postponed while the case is being appealed." Commentary on the sentence available at Forbes as well.

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Re:What makes this guy different? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-08 08:26 · Score: 3, Informative

I admit 9 years is a LONG time, but he KNEW what he was doing was very, very wrong.
pumping out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need
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Prosecutors say he grossed up to $750,000 per month.
This guy is a hard up criminal, and now he going to do time like one.