U.S. Pr0n Spammers Convicted

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Virus Bulletin Spam News.

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A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona, has found two men guilty of two charges
of violating the US CAN-SPAM regulations, as well as other charges
including fraud and money laundering.

The two men, Californian Jeffrey Kilbride and Arizona citizen James
Shaffer, both 41, are thought to have started their spamming business,
promoting porn sites, in 2003 and made as much as $2 million from the
operation. When the CAN-SPAM laws came into effect in 2004, they started
using servers based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in an attempt to bypass
the regulations, and also used companies set up in Mauritius and the Isle
of Man to hide their financial traces.

Use of domain names registered with fraudulent information and spoofing
email headers meant the men fell foul of the CAN-SPAM acts requirements for
openness and traceability. After a three week trial the two have been found
guilty on all counts, and at their sentencing in September could face up to
five years jail time for each CAN-SPAM count and another 20 years for the
money laundering charges.

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More:
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/spam_news/2007/06_26.xml

- - ferg


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