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British Spammer Gets 6 Years

Posted by Zonk on from the angry-little-black-hat dept.

Killjoy_NL writes "The BBC tells us that a 23 year old spammer has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for sending spam and other illegal activities." From the article: "He had offered thousands of e-mail and website names when he had no right. And when victims complained, he threatened to destroy their internet systems by sending millions of spam e-mails. Peterborough Crown Court heard he also threatened to fire-bomb the headquarters of the county's trading standards department and petrol-bomb his local police headquarters. When internet policing group Nominet posted warnings about his activities, he responded by saying he would attack its servers." ZDNet has coverage as well.

2 of 190 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Title Misleading by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > > Peter Francis-Macrae, of St Neots, Cambs, was found guilty of threatening to kill and blackmail.
    >
    > Yes, he was a spammer but that's not what he was sentenced for.

    Yes, but it sounds like he thre@tened to ki1l and b1ackmai1 so many people that the threats themselves qualified as spam :-)

  2. Good! by Whackjob23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now hopefully he'll know the feeling of having unwanted items shoved into his inbox. Or outbox, depending upon your view of that type of thing....