הוא נאשם בהפצת דואר זבל תחת שמות בדויים.

וירג'יניה היתה בין הראשונות לחקיקת חוק מקומי בנושא הפצת דואר זבל, חוק זה שימש בהמשך כבסיס לחקיקת חוק פדרלי שאושר בקונגרס לאחרונה.

תוך כדי משפט התברר גם כי העסק "משתלם" מבחינה כלכלית - ההכנסות מדואר הזבל במקרה הנ"ל היו בין 500,000$ ל-700,000$ לחודש.
עוד התברר כי הנאשם גנב בסיס נתונים מ"אמריקה און-ליין" בו 84 מליון כתובות אימייל.



הכתבה המלאה בנושא

US judge confirms 9-year jail term for spam king

WASHINGTON: A judge sentenced a man to nine years in prison on Friday for violating anti-spam laws by sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails using fake addresses, authorities said.

Loudon County, Virginia, Circuit Judge sentenced Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, North Carolina, accepting the recommendation of a jury that convicted him last November, prosecutor Lisa Hicks-Thomas said.

Hicks-Thomas said the sentence under Virginia law was the first prison term in the United States in a spam case, adding that the state law on spam was used to model a federal spam law approved later by Congress.

"It was not just sending bulk e-mails, he was falsifying the routing information, disguising the origin," Hicks-Thomas said.

"The end-user couldn't say 'don't sent this to me.'"

Jaynes, who operated using the alias "Gaven Stubberfield," was listed by the anti-spam watchdog group Spamhaus as the eighth most prolific spammer in the world.

Hicks-Thomas said prosecutors calculated that Jaynes took in between 500,000 and 750,000 dollars a month through the sale of products through the e-mails.

She said Jaynes also possessed a stolen database of America Online members with some 84 million e-mail addresses. - AFP

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