Page 1 of 1
Three indicted in U.S. spam crackdown
Posted: 2005-08-26 10:57am
by The Grim Squeaker
Ahh, it's nice to see spammers getting their day in court
Three low-life spammers have been indicted by an Arizona grand jury and are considered to be in the top 200 as far as spammers go:
Three people accused of sending massive amounts of spam face possible prison sentences after being indicted by a grand jury in Arizona and accused of violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and other charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
Named in the indictment are Jennifer R. Clason, Jeffrey A. Kilbride and James R. Schaffer. The three are accused of sending spam that advertised pornographic Web sites, the DOJ said in a statement. They could make money from commissions that the Web sites paid in return for directing traffic to their sites, the statement said.
linky
Nice news
Posted: 2005-08-26 11:05am
by Embracer Of Darkness
Excellent.
Posted: 2005-08-26 12:59pm
by Uraniun235
They should also get fined so much that they lose all their ill-gotten profits, and they should be barred from operating a computer for five years.
Posted: 2005-08-26 01:31pm
by The Kernel
While it's a nice gesture, the anti-spam laws really aren't going to do anything. Spammers will just set up shop in countries that don't have such laws and there is nothing we can do to stop them short of cutting of the country in question from the internet entirely.
Posted: 2005-08-26 01:32pm
by Mr Bean
Uraniun235 wrote:They should also get fined so much that they lose all their ill-gotten profits, and they should be barred from operating a computer for five years.
I prefer taken out back and shot but that works too.
Posted: 2005-08-26 03:59pm
by Uraniun235
Mr Bean wrote:Uraniun235 wrote:They should also get fined so much that they lose all their ill-gotten profits, and they should be barred from operating a computer for five years.
I prefer taken out back and shot but that works too.
If we wanted to be cruel, we could mandate absolutely no computers whatsoever.
That would forbid all modern cell phones, ATMs, a lot of cars made in the past two decades, modern TVs... shit, you name it.
Without his ill-gotten riches, he'd pretty much have to live destitute in a shack in some rural area.
Posted: 2005-08-26 07:01pm
by Executor32
Since they can't get the death penalty, I say we do the next best thing: sentence them to NARFLE THE GARTHOK!
Your idea is good, too, Uraniun.