Spam King Headed To Prison

We all hate spam and love to see the people behind the spam being sent to prison. Take Adam Vitale, who was responsible for millions upon millions of spam e-mails, earning himself upwards of $40,000 a week. No wonder it’s so difficult to get out of the spam business once you are in.

According to court documents, Moeller and Vitale had devised a way to defeat AOL’s filtering system. During one week in August 2005, the two of them managed to target over 1.27 million AOL e-mail addresses with spam. The indictment accuses of them of violating a section of the CAN-SPAM Act that says that “the volume of electronic mail messages transmitted in furtherance of the offense exceeded 2,500 during any 24-hour period, 25,000 during any 30-day period, or 250,000 during any 1-year period.”

Source: Ars Technica