Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Porn Spammers Get Five Years Each

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cleaning-my-inbox-one-court-case-at-a-time dept.

PC World is reporting that 'California's Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer of Arizona, have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison. Both were convicted of conspiracy, money laundering, fraud, and transportation of obscene materials, according to The East Valley Tribune, a newspaper covering the case.' Because sometimes bad things happen to bad people.

1 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? by DreadSpoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    They weren't jailed for spamming. They were jailed for all of the illegal things they did in order to send their spam. Most of it is sent from hacked computers, involves fraud, illegal accounting practices, and various other Real Crimes(tm) that have nothing to do with spam itself. They were jailed for the means they used to send the spam (and collect pay for it), not the sending itself. If they had just mass-mailed a bunch of people non-fraudulent emails from their own machines, it would have been a totally different punishment.