Posted on 05/30/2007 6:00:34 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Yep, that’s the solution. There has to be very painful, very public punishment to deter these creatures before they ruin the web.
Judge: How do you plead?
Mr. Soloway: Not guilty. I'm in the country illegally.
Prosecutor: Doh!
...In July.
FWIW, I believe in the Death Penalty in convictions for murder, rape or telemarketing.
If this is coming from addresses you didn’t send anything to. Most of the time that happens when someone is forging mail, making it look like it’s coming from you, and the bounce messages are coming to your mailbox. This is known as “backscatter” mail.
I think the prisoners will be testing this guy’s personal firewall. I have a hunch their spam will succeed.
He's not charged with spamming. The charges are in the article : indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud.
Cruel and unusual punishment at the time of our Founding Fathers was doing such things as pulling the skin off the hand with pliers and then dipping the hand in molten lead, or disemboweling someone, cooking their guts and showing it to them before they died. It was the type of punishment reserved for traitors and those who attempted or successfully killed a monarch.
65 years for a spammer seems pretty light to me.
Thanks, that makes sense. I wish the reasons people who do it did, though.
"It's that simple," she said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She just sent junk e-mail to 500,000 strangers - and you! - The person behind all that Junk Email is Laura Betterly.
From the Wall Street Journal
By MYLENE MANGALINDAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 13, 2002 12:34 p.m. DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The sun was setting on Laura Betterly's six-bedroom house as she reviewed a pair of outgoing e-mail messages one last time. Satisfied, she moved her cursor to the "send" icon and clicked. "It's that simple," Ms. Betterly said triumphantly, swiping her palms. She had just dispatched e-mail messages to 500,000 strangers. Half saw the subject line: "Don't miss your chance to win 2002 Lexus RX300." The other half saw: "Win a trip to Nascar!" Ms. Betterly's messages joined the roughly two billion other unsolicited commercial e-mails that hit in-boxes around the world every day. The company she runs from her home, Data Resource Consulting Inc., sends out as many as 60 million such messages a month. That puts the 41-year-old single mother in the most hated breed on the Internet. She sends spam. "I'm just trying to make a living like everyone else," says Ms. Betterly. Her e-mail marketing operation, she says, allows her to raise her children, Chris, 10, and Craig, 11, and to spend quality time with them. "You can call me spam queen, I don't really care. As long as I'm not breaking any laws, you don't have to love me or like what I do for a living."
Hey!
It’s called a “joe job.” I’ve been the victim of spam gangs for years, and have received plenty of those types of e-mails....
Bump for away from the firewall viewing.
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