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	Prison for spam

aklimento

7-16-2008 8:35 AM

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antispam law, prison, restitution, prostitution, subscribers, informant, aol

aklimento says:

That anti-spam laws are finally working.

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                                        NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080715/wr_nm/crime_usa_spam_dc_2"><P>
                        NEW YORK (Reuters) - 
A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 
months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more 
than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that 
foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.                        
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 Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in 
<SPAN id="lw_1216158938_0" class="yshortcuts">Manhattan</SPAN> after pleading guilty more than a year ago to 
breaking anti-spam laws. He was also ordered to pay $180,000 to 
<SPAN id="lw_1216158938_1" class="yshortcuts">AOL</SPAN> in restitution.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080715/wr_nm/crime_usa_spam_dc_2"><P>
 Prosecutors said Vitale had 22 prior convictions and had 
also helped run an online prostitution ring on the Web site 
<A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/nm/wr_nm/storytext/crime_usa_spam_dc/28244728/SIG=10ria48nk/*http://www.craigslist.com"><SPAN id="lw_1216158938_2" class="yshortcuts">www.craigslist.com</SPAN></A>, but he has not been criminally charged.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080715/wr_nm/crime_usa_spam_dc_2"><P>
 Court papers said that in less than a week in August 2005, 
Vitale and Moeller sent e-mails on behalf of the informant to 
more than 1,277,000 addresses of subscribers at AOL, the online 
division of <SPAN id="lw_1216158938_3" class="yshortcuts">Time Warner Inc</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/87CA89B6-10A2-483F-9653-54744AD52646/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>