Spammer Faces Decades In Prison For Sending More Than 1 Million Spam Emails (suntimes.com)

mi quotes a report from Chicago Sun-Times: A man has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly sending more than a million spam emails. The indictment charges 36-year-old Michael Persaud of Scottsdale, Arizona, with 10 counts of wire fraud and seeks the forfeiture of four computers, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office. The indictment was returned Dec. 9, 2016, and was unsealed after Persaud was arrested last month in Arizona. Between 2012 and 2015, Persaud used multiple IP addresses and domains to send spam emails over at least nine networks, including several servers in Chicago, according to the indictment. He sent more than a million spam emails to people in the U.S. and abroad, using false names to register domains and creating fraudulent "from address" fields to conceal the fact that he was the one sending the emails. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
mi leaves us with some rather unpleasant imagery, writing: "Personally, I wish [the sentence] carried removal of 1 square millimeter of skin for each message instead."

Comments

Re:Good!

[Dutch Gun]

Wait!... You don't think the punishment may be a bit... draconian?!!! What is wrong with you people?

The headline is inaccurate clickbait, which unfortunately, seems to be happening a lot more with Slashdot lately.

That the maximum sentence based on the law - 10 counts of wire fraud of 20 years each. He's not going to be sentenced for 200, or even 20 years. Sentences anywhere from one to four years seems to be the norm for similar spam-related cases.