NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam

Tech.Luver writes "A man from New Jersey has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for sending more than a million spam messages to AOL users. 'Todd Moeller was sentenced ... after he was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the profits ... Moeller told the informant via instant messaging he could conceal the source of the e-mails through his access to 40 different servers and had profited $40,000 a month from other spam e-mail scams that promoted stocks, prosecutors said.'"

Comments

Yeah, right.

[ThePromenader]

"Masking" source IP's. Not on this earth.

Significance

[Cillian]

I believe an appropriate quote would be, "You may have won the battle, but we will win the war" - Even taking out a large spammer like this doesn't have a particularly large effect on the overall influx of spam. Maybe we need to go with the ??AA tactics and sue the mom-and-pop spam shops to try and scare the $*&^ out of them?

Spam

[clarkkent09]

And how appropriate that the story itself is spam for this techluver blog.

In any case, I wonder why don't they do this kind of sting operations to catch spammers more often. Just the lack of resources or will I guess. If we could somehow link spammers to terrorism I'm sure we'd see this kind of thing a lot more often. Like manufacture a story that Al Qaeda is financed by sales of penis enlargement pills or something?