Jeffrey A Kilbride, of Venice, California, and James R Schaffer, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, bought lists of email addresses and sent the owners links to pornographic websites, prosecutors said. They were convicted of charges including conspiracy, money laundering, fraud and transportation of obscene materials after a three-week trial and were sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell, in Phoenix. The spammers were prosecuted under the U.S. anti-spam law CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
Prosecutors said Kilbride and Schaffer, both 41, had started their spamming business four years ago and earned more than $2m in commissions.
Over nine months in 2004, Kilbride, Schaffer and an associate transmitted more than 600,000 spam messages, according to court documents. They were paid commissions based on the number of people who accessed the websites via the spam.
News Source East Valley Tribune.
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