Entry 30456 (Berkeley CSUA MOTD)

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2025/05/25 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular

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2004/5/27-28 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:30456 Activity:moderate

5/27    Spammer sentenced to 3.5 to 7 years.
        http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5278816
        \_ Yay!  Does he get a free ass raping?  Maybe he needs some
           m'ed'is(in3 40r mak-in(g h}i{s pe-ep&pee bi^gg$er!
        \_ Wasn't that the idiot who couldn't even make any money off his
           crappy identity theft/spamming scheme?
        \_ perhaps a better sentence would be to make them stay in jail until
           they've read every single email they ever sent out.
           \_ that's not harsh enough.

2025/05/25 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular

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www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=5278816MORE By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York state man who sent out millions of "spam" e-mails was sentenced to 3-1/2 to seven years in prison, the state attorney general's office said on Thursday. Howard Carmack, known as the "Buffalo Spammer," received the maximum sentence for 14 counts of identity theft and forgery, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. Carmack sent out hundreds of millions of bulk e-mail messages, flooding inboxes and saddling Internet providers with millions of dollars in costs. But it was his use of stolen identities and forged addresses that caused him to run afoul of state prosecutors. com, and a national anti-spam law was not yet in place when Carmack was arrested a year ago. He was found guilty of violating state forgery and identity-theft laws in April. The forgery conviction fetched the longest sentence, while the other convictions drew shorter sentences of one year to four years. All will be served concurrently, Spitzer spokesman Brad Maione said. Carmack could be out in 3-1/2 years should he behave in prison, Maione said. won a $165 million judgment against Carmack last year, and EarthLink officials testified in the criminal trial as well. Carmack set up more than 300 false e-mail accounts to send 825 million e-mails, starting in March 2002, EarthLink said in its lawsuit. "We're satisfied that today's sentencing sends a strong message to spammers, and EarthLink will continue to investigate spammers and work with law enforcement," said EarthLink assistant general counsel Karen Cashion in a statement. have cooperated with state authorities to track down rogue marketers who flood their networks with billions of unwanted e-mails. Internet providers have also invoked a variety of state and national laws to sue hundreds of spammers on their own. Unwanted bulk messages now account for roughly 83 percent of e-mail traffic, according to filtering company Postini Inc.