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Spammers who
forge documents, steal and fake the identity of others
to create their email traffic will be prosecuted...
EarthLink VP of law and public policy Dave Baker said in a statement;
"Howard Carmack's arrest demonstrates that spamming has both
civil and
criminal consequences. Simply
put, spammers who brazenly disregard the law will wind up in jail."
New York Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer said; "Spammers who forge documents and steal the identity of
others to create their e-mail traffic will be prosecuted", "He is a
predicate felon and he's somebody we believe could face jail time if
convicted."
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AOL
spammer pleads guilty to forgery
Jason Garon, 46, of Mission Viejo, California admitted that he took over a
Westchester company's Internet service to send the unsolicited mails,
which he disguised to make appear as though they had come from IBM's
Internet provider, IBM.net.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/15420.html
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Evil spammers jailed for two years
Two Los Angeles men, Steve Shklovskiy and Yan Shtok both receive a sentence
of two years in a September 1999 scheme which involved the sending of 50
million emails by using software to "harvest" email addresses to scam and
duped 12,000 people into paying £24 "processing fee" in order to learn how
to get a job stuffing envelopes.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/15791.html |
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AOL wins $7m in porn spam case
The US District Court of the Eastern District in Virginia
awarded AOL statutory damages totaling almost $7m.
AOL brought the case against CN Productions, alleging it had sent
unwanted emails advertising adult Web sites and spamming its users--accounting
for a quarter of all junk email complaints and
had generated as much as $8m in "illegal gains".
In a statement Randall Boe, executive VP and General Counsel of AOL,
said: "This is an important legal victory in the fight against spam and it
sends a clear, distinct message to spammers:
AOL is prepared to use all
of
the legal and technological tools available to shut down spammers who
inundate the mailboxes of AOL members with unwanted and often offensive junk
e-mail. www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/28600.html
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Earthlink brings down the Buffalo Spammer
Earthlink (US ISP), was today awarded $16.4 million damages against a notorious spammer
"Howard Carmack" known as "The Buffalo Spammer" for sending more than 825
million illegal emails since March 2002.
www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/2202511
Earthlink, also alleged that "Carmack" and accomplices used "banking
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illegal
activities to fraudulently purchase Internet accounts
and send out UCE (unsolicited
commercial emails).
According to Earthlink, "Carmack" assumed the identities of innocent third-parties to disguise his
own involvement in these illegal activities.
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Pete Wellborn, Earthlink lawyer said; "Permanent injunction against
sending out spam is much more important than the damages, Carmack is not
going to be spamming anybody else".
www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30590.html
In 1997, "Earthlink" won
a $2 million judgment against über-spammers. Sanford Wallace--"most prolific spammer" and his company Cyber Promotions.
In 2002, "Earthlink" received a $25 million judgment against K.C. Smith--He
was accused of sending out as many as one billion "spam" email messages.
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