NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL

[Chris_]

NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.

Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after pleading guilty more than a year ago to breaking anti-spam laws. He was also ordered to pay $180,000 to AOL in restitution.

Vitale was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails -- known as spam -- that advertised a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the product's profits, prosecutors said.

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[Chris_]

Good news.

A few eons ago, I had an account with Always Off Line.  Lousy service and tons of spam.

[LC EFA]

Better if it was 30 lashes a day for 30 months...

Spammers are vermin !

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[Wretched Excess]

I initially thought that 30 months was WAY too harsh for spamming in any volume that
didn't constitute a DoS attack (people have accused me of being soft on spam ),
but then, further down the story, I ready this:

Prosecutors said Vitale had 22 prior convictions and had also helped run an online prostitution ring on the Web site www.craigslist.com, but he has not been criminally charged.

Now I think 30 months is too light.

*I am transporting this to General Discussions;  it's a cool story, and maybe it will get a little more traffic in GD.  It's
cool enough for BN, but Chris didn't use quote tags, so it doesn't conform.
 

[DumbAss Tanker]

AOL was OK, but a year or two after signing up in central NJ back in the 90s, they stopped providing a local server and there was no point in staying on it once I had to pay another ISP.