2 Porn Spammers get 5 years +

Monday, October 15. 2007

2 Porn Spammers get 5 years +

In a great move toward cleaning our inboxes for good, California's Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer of Arizona, have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison. Both were convicted of conspiracy, money laundering, fraud, and transportation of obscene materials, according to The East Valley Tribune, a newspaper covering the case.

The two men reportedly earned $2 million in porn spam profits since 2003 when they began buying e-mail lists and pelting recipients with junk e-mail linking to pornographic Web sites. To throw law enforcement off its tracks the Phoenix-based business used a server in Amsterdam to send its spam and also falsified headers and domain names embedded in sent e-mails. The two set up a dummy corporation in Mauritius and opened up bank accounts in Mauritius and the Isle of Man.