Spam King Goes To Jail

Seattle Times is reporting that Robert Soloway is going to prison for a long time. "Soloway appeared at a hastily scheduled hearing in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where he was set to go to trial in two weeks on a 40-count indictment that included seven counts of aggravated identity theft — which carries a mandatory two-year prison sentence added on to any other sentence — and 13 counts of money laundering."
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Porn Spam brings in Five Years in Jail and Costs 1.3Million Dollars

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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