Two Convicted of Internet Spam Fraud

and one was found not guilty in the first federal spam conviction according to this AP article. One of the convicts received a sentence of 9 years in jail. They had been accused of spamming milllions of people for useless or phony software, amassing a fortune of over $24 million. [Dana Baggett]


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