British Spammer Gets 6 Years

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.

Comments

got what he deserved

[MetalliQaZ]

That stupid little parasite got what he deserved. Just look at him, he's a punkass. Have fun in prison, beyotch.

-d

Spam

[certel]

Hopefully, this will strike some fear into spammers and some of the spam will be reduced!

You're still not understanding the situation.

[CyricZ]

But the fact remains that he did not directly take money from these people. They voluntarily sent the money to him, for whatever reason.

The fact also remains that they need to take responsibility for their actions. They should not have voluntarily sent him money if they were not completely sure that he was in fact their registrar, much as they shouldn't voluntarily put money in his Coke machine if they're not sure it will give them a bottle of Coke.

Notice that the key word is voluntary. That means that the victims themselves should take some responsibility for becoming victimized. They made the mistake of sending him the money when they obviously did not have to.