Spammer could get a stiff sentence
06-07-2005, 12:41
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Spammer could get a stiff sentence
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Notorious spammer Christopher "Rizler" Smith is due in court on Wednesday following his arrest at Minneapolis St Paul International airport last Thursday. Prosecutors are calling for Smith to be held in contempt of court and jailed for six months over his flight from justice after a US judge brought the shutters down on his lucrative US spamming operation.
Smith was nabbed after stepping off a flight from the Dominican Republic, where he had been operating since May after a federal judge shut down his Minneapolis-based spam businesses, Burnsville Internet and Xpress Pharmacy Direct, and ordered him to stop marketing penis pills and other assorted tat. Smith allegedly sent more than one billion spam emails either to AOL email addresses or through AOL email accounts. The FBI claims Smith, 25, has made approximately $18m this year from his lucrative spam businesses.
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Sorry but the title just had to be done 
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06-07-2005, 13:31
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
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The FBI claims Smith, 25, has made approximately $18m this year from his lucrative spam businesses.
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With that kind of money he'll undoubtedly walk away relatively unscathed.
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06-07-2005, 13:34
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
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The FBI claims Smith, 25, has made approximately $18m this year from his lucrative spam businesses.
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With that kind of money he'll undoubtedly walk away relatively unscathed. |
I dunno, they have seized assets and closed his company so he may find himself on the receiving end of an inmate who is using his merchandise
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On 10 May, federal authorities raided Xpress Pharmacy and Smith's home, seizing his passport and $4.2m in assets, including a $1.1m house and luxury vehicles worth $1.8m. At the same time the FBI closed down his 85-employee company.
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06-07-2005, 13:36
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
I think the mods should be able to lock Nug out of threads like this, lets hope he doesn't find it.
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06-07-2005, 13:38
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I think the mods should be able to lock Nug out of threads like this, lets hope he doesn't find it.
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I think the Mods are impotent against him!
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06-07-2005, 14:05
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
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I think the mods should be able to lock Nug out of threads like this, lets hope he doesn't find it.
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Really? I think I know someone who can sort that problem out for them.... if they are letting him use Bubba's computer
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06-07-2005, 14:29
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
The problem with this case is that this guy probably will go to prison.
He goes in a petty criminal, certainly not a major league player when you consider that murderers and rapists are getting off scott free, and will probably come out a hardened criminal.
< Edit: to make it more obvious, just in case the Pun radars are turned off  >
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06-07-2005, 15:54
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
Where's Nugget?
Well what would be the best sort of punishment for Spammers then?If not jail time what.Seize all their money I suppose but it doesn't seem enough for the time wasting that spam entails, not to mention the expense of firms finding a way not to have their inbox's full of spam. 
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06-07-2005, 16:04
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Where's Nugget?
Well what would be the best sort of punishment for Spammers then?If not jail time what.Seize all their money I suppose but it doesn't seem enough for the time wasting that spam entails, not to mention the expense of firms finding a way not to have their inbox's full of spam. |
Dunno but let's face someone is likely to get shafted....... I'll get my coat 
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06-07-2005, 17:26
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
Do you think it will stand up in court?!
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06-07-2005, 17:33
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
`so he may find himself on the receiving end of an inmate who is using his merchandise `::::::> Lol!!!!!!! Nice One Mate. 
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07-07-2005, 07:06
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
I don't think this case should be dropped through lack of hard evidence and hope the prosecutor calls for a stiff sentence.
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07-07-2005, 07:32
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
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Where's Nugget?
Well what would be the best sort of punishment for Spammers then?If not jail time what.Seize all their money I suppose but it doesn't seem enough for the time wasting that spam entails, not to mention the expense of firms finding a way not to have their inbox's full of spam. |
They shud be given one mailbox, and a computer shud be setup to generate spam to the convicted spam offenders. Who must reply to every mail, miss one inside a set time results in the spam generator sending that offender XX more extra spam, the more they miss the more this increases. The sentence could be something like 1 spam mail per $/£ screwed from victims. They are then free to go once the sentence is completed.
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07-07-2005, 20:18
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Re: Spammer could get a stiff sentence
The bloke that promised people that they would get hard, is facing getting some hard time.
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