Godfather of Spam gets 51 months in prison

Deso hit on the key point. Spamming was not the only crime here. Manipulating stock prices was the offense he got really slapped with.

51months is a bit excessive though. I'd settle for 24 months, and for bankrupting him by taking every single penny from him. We can use that money to help fund the next generation of people combating these scum bags.

Considering that with good behavior he will have far less time im thinking 10-20 years would have been better because his victims were world-wide.

Thank you for noticing !!

I still wonder tho who would buy stock based on information in random e-mails they get?
Anyone who would do that is a lunatic.

The scariest aspect to me is that there must be people who respond to, or purchase from Spam. If people were more careful, then there'd be no Spam.

Well it's in human nature not to be satisfied with what they have and wanting more and more.The guys who bought stocks may thought in such a way like"What's bad with spending couple of thousand dollar buying stocks when i am buying them legitimately.May be i should just take a chance and see what happens" AND the fish is in the trap.

Morale of the story-"Never Believe in "Easy money" or "take a chance".Money does not come easy.You need to work hard for that.

btw @ slh28 and @Guest
It's 2 sepearate people if you didn't get that from my "it's not in the article joke" as one of them was doing the stock stuff and the other did the other stuff.. both of you seam to think they are the 2, is the same person

The guy in jail deserves it. The guy with the $711 million fine is not in jail and will probably appeal the judgement for many more years while he continues to make more money spamming. That's what's wrong with monetary fines, they usually don't get paid. He should have gotten a jail term also and been held in jail until the $711 million fine is paid. The guy knew that he was sending spam illegally. Take his illegal profits AND require mandatory jail time .... otherwise there's not much risk for all of the other folks sending spam 'cause they can't catch them all and if they do, you only lose some money.

i feel sorry for the guy, but maybe this'll help cutting back on spam...
i hate it when i check my mail, waiting for a really important message, i see 9 new mails, and all of them are about Viagra or some Nigerian dude wanting to send me lots of cash...

Spamming per se isn't heinously evil just annoying IMO, Scamming on the other hand... thats another thing

well thats one less person we have to worry about for spam! But Who's going to notice. My company gets hit with atleast 10000 spam emails everyday!

Good riddance! Not going to bring down Spam levels, though, which sucks.

OWNED

these spammers def got what they deserve, about time people got more than a ban for their stupidity.

If there are people that eat spam, there will always be spam, just like poachers and the people who buy ivory/animal coats. The cycle never ends.

Every little bit counts but this will do nothing to stop the flow of spam. As long as someone can make money from it it will never stop.

Wait a minute, he was indicted for money laundering on top of the spam charges and all the other charges, but he only received 51 months in prison? How could he possibly get off with such little jail time? Sanford Wallace gets fined $711 million, and this guy gets off the hook with 51 months of jail. Odd.

yes, that is odd, I don't think 4 1/2 years adds up to 711mill huh. personally I would serve the jail time....

I never thought spam could get this bad, I know he did a host of other crimes but still, I actually know a few people that was tricked into this "pump-and-dump" stock scheme didn't knew thats what they called it, oh man he lost some cash.

If I should believe in easy money,
does that mean that I should stop
betting at the lottery?

or betting once in a while in
races or sometimes casino?

good riddance to bad rubbish, although i completley disagree with the judges judgment.

This is good news, but there are still millions of spammers out there...