Online Spammer gets 30 years in prison

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Pill pusher spammer gets 30 years in federal prison
By Mauricio Freitas, in Technology, posted: 6-AUG-2007 14:46

Just minutes after I wrote about a stupid idiot New Zealand guy who thinks spamming forums is ok and he's "disappointed" we deleted his posts, I read Spyware Sucks reporting of a U.S. spammer who got sentenced to 30 years in a PMITA federal prison:


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Notorious spammer Christopher "Rizler" Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday.

US District Judge Michael Davis called Smith a "drug kingpin" before throwing the book at him. Smith was convicted on charges of conspiracy, illegal distribution of drugs, money laundering and operating a continuing criminal enterprise."

"Under the spam companies Burnsville Internet and Xpress Pharmacy Direct, Smith allegedly sent more than one billion emails through America Online. The FBI claims he made approximately $18m
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The original story is on Spammer gets 30 years in the slammer | The Register

As someone noted on the comment in my previous post, spammers keep doing it because people buy from them.

And as noted by Spyware Sucks's Sandi, this is $18 million in a year, from a single spammer! How many people read spam and actually buy the crap this people sell? No surprise then that a lot of people also get sucked into other scams.

People, don't buy from spammers. What they sell won't enlarge anything, make you stronger, and you are not approved for a cheap home loan either. And no one left money in your name, and no dead African President left money for hist PA to distribute to you. Get a life people!




So next time you think about sending 1 billion emails...think again

1 BILLION EMAILS SEND
18 MILLION PROFIT
NICE 1% conversion lol
#online #prison #spammer #years
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    As I've said before here, if spam was not so profitable... there wouldn't be any...

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