Spam Sentence Carries as Much as 7 Years
A man who sent 850 million junk e-mails through accounts he opened with stolen identities was sentenced in Buffalo to as much as seven years in prison for forgery, identity theft and falsifying business records.
Atlanta-based Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. said it hoped the sentence and an earlier $16.4-million civil judgment against Howard Carmack would deter other spammers.
“Before spammers send one more spam e-mail, we think they should remember that what happened to Howard Carmack can happen to them,” said Karen Casion, Earthlink’s assistant general counsel.
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