Spammers Get Five Years for Pornographic E-mails

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PHOENIX — Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic e-mails have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of the first prosecution under a federal anti-spam law, U.S. Department of Justice officials said Friday.

Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., purchased e-mail addresses and sent the owners of those addresses links to pornographic Web sites, prosecutors said.

They were convicted in June of charges including conspiracy, money laundering, fraud and transportation of obscene materials after a three-week trial and were sentenced by a federal judge in Phoenix this week.

Prosecutors said that Kilbride and Schaffer, both 41, started their spamming business four years ago, earning more than $2 million in commissions.

They sent millions of unsolicited e-mails, prosecutors said. During nine months in 2004, Kilbride, Schaffer and an associate transmitted more than 600,000 spam messages advertising pornographic Web sites, according to court documents.

According to the indictment, Kilbride and Schaffer were paid commissions based on the number of people who accessed the Web sites using the spam messages.

Prosecutors said that after Congress passed a law known as the CAN-SPAM Act cracking down on unsolicited pornographic e-mails, Kilbride and Schaffer tried to make it seem like they were sending messages from abroad by logging in to servers in Amsterdam. But those messages originated from Phoenix, prosecutors said.

Kilbride and Schaffer were also ordered to forfeit $1.3 million.

Three other men charged in the case pleaded guilty and testified against Kilbride and Schaffer.

Izvor: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301528,00.html

 

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Simpatičan komentar na drugom forumu:

...thats what you get for being a spammer.
oh and enjoy your new home, im sure they;re gonna make a women outta you there...

 

[Master)D(M1nD]

Brate, pametni ljudi! Zaradite vi 2 miliona $ !!! (legalno ili nelegalno, nevazno!). Ne kazem da sam na njihovoj strani, bash naprotiv, i treba da ih uhvate, ali svaka cast ljudima koji rade ovako nesto, mlate pare, a nikada ne budu uhvaceni!

 

[Preoccupation]

Brate, pametni ljudi! Zaradite vi 2 miliona $ !!! (legalno ili nelegalno, nevazno!). Ne kazem da sam na njihovoj strani, bash naprotiv, i treba da ih uhvate, ali svaka cast ljudima koji rade ovako nesto, mlate pare, a nikada ne budu uhvaceni!

Da, ako je cilj novac. Ako je cilj, osim da radiš nešto što ti prija, i lična satisfakcija na moralnom nivou - onda nikako ne stoji to što govoriš...

Mene niko ne može da ubedi da baviti se spamovanjem može da bude prijatno, inspirativno i kreativno...

To što si napisao da nisi na njihovoj strani je samo pokušaj disclaimer-a jer da možeš (da imaš m**a + da ti neko garantuje veliki novac + freedom) ti bi to isto radio... 😉

U svakom slučaju bitno je da spamovanje više ne može tek tako da prođe...

 

[dr.Tiristor]

Vec smo pricali na ovu temu i to nasiroko i jel treba da se ponavlja???

Aj sad, posebno vi po bg-u, dole do sanduceta da vidite koliko ima reklamnog materijala, pa krenite sa tuzbama... Mislim....

 

[veliki.brat]

Aj sad, posebno vi po bg-u, dole do sanduceta da vidite koliko ima reklamnog materijala, pa krenite sa tuzbama... Mislim....

u normalnim zemljama, što Srbija svakako nije, na sanduče zalepiš malu nalepnicu, na kojoj piše da ne želiš reklamni materijal, i više ga nikada nećeš dobiti!

 

[Bryan Fury]

Evo šta je dobio jedan drugi spamer:

We all know how annoying can spam be. Although there are highly sophiscated tools nowadays, which can reduce the amount of spam in your mailbox to the minimum, it’s still at least unpleasent to see all those “penis enlargement” mails. But people working in this “business” aren’t safe anymore: Alexey Tolstokozhev (btw, in Russian his name means ‘Thick Skin’), a Russian spammer, was found murdered in his luxury house near Moscow. He has been shot several times with one bullet stuck in his head. According to authorities, this last head shot is a clear mark of russian hit men (known as “killers” in Russia). Tolstokozhev was a famous spammer who sent millions of e-mail promoting viagra, cialis, penis enlargement pills and other medications.

Links in these e-mails usually led to some pharmacy shop, which paid Tolstokozhev a share of its revenue. This is a well known affiliate scheme employed by spammers worldwide. Tolstokozhev is estimated to be responsible for up to 30% percent of all viagra and penis enlargement related spam. In order to send millions and millions of unsolicited letters, Tolstokozhev employed a network of infected computers (so-called “botnet”), which he rented from hackers. How profitable is spam? Well, the authorities say that Tolstokozhev has likely made more than $2 million in 2007 alone. (in comparison: average russian monthly salary is $400). This is a second murder of a spammer in Russia. Another russian spammer, Vardan Kushnir, was assassinated in 2005. Didn’t your momma tell you that sending spam is bad?

 

[Master)D(M1nD]

To što si napisao da nisi na njihovoj strani je samo pokušaj disclaimer-a jer da možeš (da imaš m**a + da ti neko garantuje veliki novac + freedom) ti bi to isto radio... 😉

Pogresno si shvatio, ja nikada ne bih to radio (ni da mi garantuje neko to sto si napisao) jer imam svoje ciljeve i zelje za buducnost koje bih radio i za manje para od ostalih (mnogo laksih i prostih) stvari jer posao treba pre svega voleti i uzivati u njemu. No, da ne skrecemo sa teme, to sam rekao jer se divim ljudima kako tako ni od cega (ne treba im ni skola ni nista) uspeju da zarate toliki novac dok neki drugi ljudi zavrsavaju fakultete i nikada ne uspeju u zivotu! Drugo, slanje tog spama, to je samo ometanje nekoga, ne nanosi nikakvu veliku stetu, nikog nisu ubili, pokrali ili slicno. Nije to neki kriminal! Veci je kriminal to sto novinari pishu sve i svasta po novinama o poznatim licnostima (primer: skanadal), bez njihovog odobrenja za to i protiv njihove volje. To se zove ometanje privatnog zivota, a slanje spamova je nista pored toga a vidite koju sumu su uspeli da nabace sa spamom.

 

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Pogresno si shvatio, ja nikada ne bih to radio (ni da mi garantuje neko to sto si napisao) jer imam svoje ciljeve i zelje za buducnost koje bih radio i za manje para od ostalih (mnogo laksih i prostih) stvari jer posao treba pre svega voleti i uzivati u njemu. No, da ne skrecemo sa teme, to sam rekao jer se divim ljudima kako tako ni od cega (ne treba im ni skola ni nista) uspeju da zarate toliki novac dok neki drugi ljudi zavrsavaju fakultete i nikada ne uspeju u zivotu! Drugo, slanje tog spama, to je samo ometanje nekoga, ne nanosi nikakvu veliku stetu, nikog nisu ubili, pokrali ili slicno. Nije to neki kriminal! Veci je kriminal to sto novinari pishu sve i svasta po novinama o poznatim licnostima (primer: skanadal), bez njihovog odobrenja za to i protiv njihove volje. To se zove ometanje privatnog zivota, a slanje spamova je nista pored toga a vidite koju sumu su uspeli da nabace sa spamom.

My apologies. 🙂