The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a couple spammers have been convicted in the US and one has received prison time.
Jurors who convicted Jeremy Jaynes, 30, and Jessica DeGroot, 28, on Wednesday later sentenced Jaynes to a nine-year prison term and fined DeGroot $US7500 ($A9931) for three convictions each of sending emails with fraudulent and untraceable routing information.
More amazing than that is that in one month alone, Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders, each for $39.95!
Don’t respond to spam – it just encourages them! We keep repeating this, but there are obviously (and sadly) enough people still taking the bait.
Perhaps a few more convictions of this nature might discourage others joining in, but there will no doubt always be some who think it’s worth the risk. It’s also a matter of not just of creating laws in the first place, but also providing the manpower to enforce them.