Spammer gets 9 years sentence

[Arnie]

Kindof good news.
Read it here

Spammer Gets 9-Year Sentence
Chris Richardson | Staff Writer | 2005-04-11
http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050411SpammerGets9YearSentence.html

[Mia]

What is the point of the sentence if he is not gonna serve it? What is the point of the judge claiming that the law he enforced is "invalid". I guess I really do not understand the point. The entire thing was obviously a waste of time and tax payer money. The outcome is symbolic if anything.

[yfs1]

What is the point of the sentence if he is not gonna serve it? .

He will probably have a hard time renting a car and won't be able to travel to Canada. Thats probably about it ;)

[chachi]

He will probably have a hard time renting a car and won't be able to travel to Canada. Thats probably about it ;)

LOL, that will show him.

[Blogmaster]

The outcome is symbolic if anything.
and that, my friend , IS the point. The next time around the lawyers will be better prepared as well and someone is going to fry. This guy got lucky but I bet him and many others had a few sleepless night over all this.

[rth]

He will probably have a hard time renting a car and won't be able to travel to Canada. Thats probably about it ;)

Renting a car, I don't need. But not being able to travel to Canada would be devastating. :D

Seriously, I love Canada, especially Old Montreal.

Roger

[Mia]

He will probably have a hard time renting a car and won't be able to travel to Canada. Thats probably about it ;)

Good lord, that is harsh.. Those are two things that, without, would be the end of life for me... :)

[yfs1]

This thread reminds me of this Simpsons Episode:


Bart: Hello?

Creditor: Hello, Mr. Halper. I'm calling from MoneyBank Credit
Services Department. I was wondering if you had a chance to
read the threatening letter we sent you.

Bart: Daaah...?

Creditor: [condescendingly] Because you sound like a mature,
responsible person, who wouldn't want an unpaid credit card
bill to spoil all his hopes and dreams for the future.
Dreams such as home ownership, boat ownership and event-
attendance! Now, when can I tell my supervisor, Mr.
Robinson, to expect payment?
[Laddie takes the phone into his mouth and hangs it up]

Bart: [nervously relieved] Good dog.

[plmerlin]

During his career as one of the world's most prolific spammers, the prosecution claimed that James amassed a fortune of some $24 million. According to prosecutors, he was churning out up to a million emails a day. Despite a response rate of 0.3 per cent he was bringing in around $750,000 a month. extract of http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050411SpammerGets9YearSentence.html

This guy made $24 millions at a rate of $750,000 a month... he may get 9 years IF it's legal and IF he doesn't run away... with 24 millions in his pocket and as he is free waiting for the appeal...

This guy should be in jail and his money distributed to victims.

t'was just my Wednesday rage, let's go back to work trying to make an honest living.

[Blogmaster]

PL, I can see your travel site is back up. What happened to it the other day?

[plmerlin]

Some (french words) wanted to purchase the domain name and we said thanks but no thanks.

The guy bombarded our site with junk malformed requests rejected by the firewall. It overloaded the server who crashed and rebooted and crashed and rebooted all day long. We were obliged to shut it down until we found a way to disard IPs he was using (we found 50 of them from 10 countries).

When we put the server online again, he came back and tried to hack it with hate message on home page.

It was funny as he (or she in fact) was on one side using one IP, we were on the other side seeing that IP making abnormal requests like: /index.html?run:command.... and we were blocking that IP. It lasted days until he ran out of IPs :)) we caught 96 IPs we reported.

It was an experience... our bandwidth jumped to 250Gb my blood pressure to the sky and my engineer coffee comsumption to 10 gal a day :p

[Blogmaster]

I bet :) I saw the Jihad messages when I was looking for my link :D