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Spammer Scott Levine Convicted

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the into-the-big-house dept.

bani writes "Spammer Scott Levine was convicted of massive data theft from Acxiom Corporation. Prosecutors say his company, the now-defunct Snipermail.com, stole 1.6 billion customer records from Acxiom and sold the data. He faces a maximum of 640 years in prison under the law, though he will likely be sentenced to far less. One spammer down, several million to go?"

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  1. Not Millions by terrencefw · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the ROKSO list there's only really a hundred or so Levines and Richters out there. They are collectively responsible for a huge percentage of all the spam though. The rest is sent by amateur spammers sending to a few tens of thousands of people. The real spammers on the ROKSO list have databases of 1 billion + addresses.

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  2. "One spammer down, several million to go?" by ciscoguy01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "One spammer down, several million to go?"
    According to spamhaus only about 200 individuals are responsible for nearly all the spam in the world. I know that seems incredible but they are in a position to know.

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