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From the News Desk
Thursday, 17. July 2008
Junk Mail Causes 30 Months of Jail
A federal court recently sentenced a man from New York to a 30-month prison term for sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers.
The court ordered Adam Vitale, 27, to also pay restitution of USD 180,000 to the Time Warner unit for violating federal antispam laws. Vitale and his partner, Todd Moeller, were busted after they offered their spam services to a government informant, according to an indictment filed in May 2006. Under that deal, both the men were to receive 50 percent of the product's proceeds.
Vitale and Todd Moeller falsified header information and used anonymous proxies - compromised PCs - to bypass AOL's spam filters. The duo completed their spam run in less than a week in August 2005 in the hope of raking in half the income from the resulting sales.
"Spamming is serious criminal conduct; this is not a teenager engaging in child's play," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin told Vitale as he sentenced him.
Moeller was sentenced to 27 months in jail last November.
The court ordered Adam Vitale, 27, to also pay restitution of USD 180,000 to the Time Warner unit for violating federal antispam laws. Vitale and his partner, Todd Moeller, were busted after they offered their spam services to a government informant, according to an indictment filed in May 2006. Under that deal, both the men were to receive 50 percent of the product's proceeds.
Vitale and Todd Moeller falsified header information and used anonymous proxies - compromised PCs - to bypass AOL's spam filters. The duo completed their spam run in less than a week in August 2005 in the hope of raking in half the income from the resulting sales.
"Spamming is serious criminal conduct; this is not a teenager engaging in child's play," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin told Vitale as he sentenced him.
Moeller was sentenced to 27 months in jail last November.
