Old Weird Ward
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Friday, May 28, 2004
- - - - - Spammer Gets Slammer, HURRAH! - - - - -
First, see the story HERE.
A New York state man accused of stealing Internet accounts to send hundreds of millions of spam messages has been sentenced to as many as seven years in prison.
Howard Carmack, known as the "Buffalo Spammer," was sentenced to up to 7 years in jail on 14 counts of identity theft and forgery by an Erie County, N.Y. court.
In April, Carmack was found guilty of violating state forgery and identity-theft laws. He had been charged with forging business records of Atlanta-based Internet service provider EarthLink when he falsified the headers of spam sent from accounts opened using stolen identities from two Buffalo, N.Y. residents. Estimates of the number of spam E-mails Carmack sent starting in 2002 ranged as high as 850 million.
Editorial Comment: Jerry Pournelle (Web Site) and I disagree about lots of stuff in the political realm. But one thing we both agree on - until something publicly bad happens to a spammer or two, they'll keep on jamming the email address that you pay for with all kinds of trash that you don't want to know about, soaking up a lot of your time trying to delete his trash.
It now appears that at least one of these time-wasting scumroids is going to a place with very friendly sub-standard neighbors.
Good. It's a start.
It'd be a shame if he enjoys himself....
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