Those of you who love reading spam emails might be interested in this. Jeremy Jaynes, a prolific email spammer who broadcast junk emails from his home in North Carolina, United States was convicted by Virginia Supreme Court for illegal spamming last Friday.
Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., considered among the world’s top 10 spammers in 2003, was convicted of massive distribution of junk e-mail and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Jaynes allegedly used aliases and false Internet addresses to bombard Web users with junk e-mails peddling sham products and services. The court’s majority said misleading commercial speech is not entitled to First Amendment protection.
Prosecutors presented evidence of 53,000 illegal e-mails Jaynes sent over three days in July 2003. But authorities believe he was responsible for spewing 10 million e-mails a day in an enterprise that grossed up to $750,000 per month.
That figure itself might have scared you off your chair. US$750k a month, and according to Wikipedia, his line rental was about US$50k per month. Over the years of spamming business, he’s estimated to have amassed a personal fortune of US$24 million!
So, please enlighten me if you still want to make huge sums of money by sending spam emails? Perhaps yes, do it quickly and stop when you have reached RM10 million because you know lar, Malaysia authorities where got so fast one? 🙂
Source: Court upholds spammer’s conviction.