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Three indicted in U.S. spam crackdown

Martyn Williams writes in NetworkWorld:

Three people accused of sending massive amounts of spam face possible prison sentences after being indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. state of 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 Justice Department 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.

The defendant's operation was ranked as one of the 200 largest sources of spam on the Internet by The Spamhaus Project, a group that tracks and battles against spam. AOL received more than 600,000 complaints between late January and early June last year related to spam from the operation, the Justice Department said. The actual number of users who received spam from the operation could be in the tens of millions, it said.

posted by Fergie @ 8/26/2005 06:53:00 AM