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2005-04-08 Home Front: Tech

Judge imposes nine-year term for convicted spammer

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Posted by Frank G 2005-04-08 2:10:59 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I thought Virginia had a death penalty.

Posted by Mike 2005-04-08 3:00:04 PM|| 2005-04-08 3:00:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Where are the constitutional questions? This isn't speech; it's theft and fraud.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-04-08 3:07:36 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-04-08 3:07:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 9 years? 25 would be fair, hard labor!

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-08 3:31:11 PM|| 2005-04-08 3:31:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I formally protest!
These people are no felons. They are kind human beings who offer me 25 millions from Nigeria every day, a bigger youknowwhat, a wonderful enhanced sex life!
Those free AOL CDs instead littering my mailbox...

Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-08 8:03:25 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:03:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 9 years sounds harsh to me, but then I can make a claim to have originated the predecessor to spam, the junk fax. I wrote a program that dialled numbers and kept a record of those where a fax answered and we then send advertising faxes to them. Worked for a while, and I even made some money out of it. Interestingly, something similar to the 419 scam was even then operating out of Nigeria. However, we never put the two together.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-08 8:20:56 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:20:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 gee. thanks, PHIL

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-08 8:25:46 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:25:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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