Buffalo Spammer Gets Nine Years In the Slammer:
Carmack was accused of sending 825 million unsolicited e-mails through EarthLink accounts established with stolen identities. EarthLink won a $16.4 million judgment against Carmack last May and helped New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer investigate the criminal case.
Spitzer's office won a conviction of Carmack on 14 counts of fraud in April in the first case filed in New York under the state's 16-month-old identity-theft law.
This should send shock waves throughout the spam community, since virtually all spam now relies on fraudulent sender information to defeat spam filters.
According to MSNBC, Carmack was convicted of the crimes last March.
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