Two Are Sentenced to 5 Years in Pornographic Spam Case
An AP newswire article, via The New York Times, reports that:
Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic e-mail messages have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of a prosecution under a federal antispam law, officials from the Department of Justice said Friday.More here.
The men, Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., bought lists of 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.
Note: This case goes all the way to 2005. - ferg
posted by Fergie @ 10/14/2007 12:07:00 PM
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