NY spammer hit with 30-month prison sentence

[zatoicchi]

A federal court on Tuesday sentenced a New York man to a 30-month prison term for sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, according to a Reuters report.

The court ordered Adam Vitale, 27, to also pay restitution of $180,000 to the Time Warner unit for violating federal antispam laws.

In 2005, Brooklyn resident Vitale and another man, Todd Moeller of New Jersey, cut a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails that advertised a security computer program to nearly 1.3 million AOL subscriber addresses. Under that deal, the two men were to receive 50 percent of the product's proceeds.

NY spammer hit with 30-month prison sentence

[Aurion]

lol he got busted way hard !! this is bad to get spammed by some kind of Jerk that u get ur Inbox filled up with useless emails !!

[anon]

it's very easy to buy those CDs/DVDs with millions of e-mail addresses and start spamming at 10000 messages a second rate... maybe now the cops will start doing something about that