LA-area man first in nation convicted under anti-spam law
 

LOS ANGELES - A man faces a sentence of up to 101 years in federal prison after being the first person in the U.S. convicted under a federal anti-spam law, authorities said.

Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was found guilty Friday of running a "phishing" scheme that tricked people into believing they were giving personal information to a legitimate business. Prosecutors said Goodin then used the information to go on a spending spree.

Goodin is the first person in the nation convicted under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S. attorney's office said. The law forbids e-mail marketers from sending false or misleading messages and requires them to provide recipients with a way to opt out of receiving future mailings.

During trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Goodin used several compromised Internet accounts to send e-mails to America Online users. The e-mails appeared to be from the company's billing department and told customers to update their billing information or lose service.

The e-mails referred people to one of several Web pages controlled by Goodin where they could enter their personal information, prosecutors said.

In addition to the anti-spam conviction, Goodin was convicted of 10 other counts, including wire fraud, misuse of the AOL trademark and attempted witness harassment.

Goodin is scheduled to be sentenced June 11.

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/16482522.htm

i hope he gets 101 years to.

sucks to be him :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

101 years? Tha's an odd jail sentence.

the one year is just a little extra kick in the ass. like saying, "you really gonna die in here fucker."

I'd rather kill my self ...:)

Yes, and 102 is even...very good.:1orglaugh

Just kidding man, no offense.

1 down 1,000,000,000 to go....

Long sentence for a thief. Never heard of people convicted of identity
thefy doing that kind of time......message!

Well, the US government is pissed! They made all this noise about how they are doing something about SPAM only to discover in the end all they really did was make it perfectly legal.

Nice job!

Bullshit, those opt out links only confirm your email is active and put you in more mailling lists.

Amen but before I go I'm taking out the rest of my list as well :1orglaugh

This is dumb. This is like saying someone got convicted of 2257 violations because they didn't have proper docs on the CP they had on their website. And they were also convicted of 10 other things.

Seems like hacking AOL, stealing credit cards, phishing scams, etc.. seem like a lot worse things here then sending out spam emails.

And I still hope he gets 101 years.

Now if they'd catch the bastard who spams me with 50 viagra emails everyday.

Hang all spammers by their balls..

the punishment does not fit the crime. People commit murder and sell drugs and get far less prison time. I bet he will probably appeal and get the sentence reduced to less than 10 years.

Of course its just saying what he could be sentenced to, it doesnt mean the judge will stick him with anything close to the maximum sentence.

read my mind

looks to me like this guy was a carder that used spam to facilitate his other crimes.

i dont know that its fair to just call him a spammer. he sounds like more of a scammer to me.


also...how the fuck is "misuse of an AOL trademark" a criminal offense? :1orglaugh

he was frauding people, serves him right

if not more :mad:

he did a little more than just spam.

I hope that sack of shit gets fucked hard in jail...