By DERRILL HOLLY

Associated Press Writer

 

STERLING, Va. - Two North Carolina men face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly operating one of the most prolific spamming operations in the world.

 

Jeremy Jaynes - who uses the aliases of Jeremy James and Gaven Stubberfield - and Richard Rutowski each face "four felony counts of transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail," Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore said Thursday.

 

The indictments, returned Monday by a grand jury in Loudoun County, Va., were based on Virginia's antispam law which took effect July 1. Kilgore's office launched its investigation into what he described as a massive spamming operation that used the America Online computer network which is headquartered in the county.

 

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Spamming is a crime? Damn Be Good is a fugative now:lol:

I hate those f***ers. I used to get so much junk when I was on AOL. I used to have a name, but I hadn't gone on in sometime cause I am at school, and there was over 500 new emails, so we deleted the name cause it woulda been a pain in the ass.

Spamming is a crime?  Damn Be Good is a fugative now:lol:

As soon as I read a guy on the East coast was arrested, I thought of BeGood

 

The US post office must be licking their chops hoping for effective bans on spam. It's the bulk mailers that keep all our 1st Class rates low. When the bulk guys send you 6 pieces of mail, they just paid the post office a dollor or so to go to your house, and they target almost everyone.

Kilgore?

 

that's a great idea

on my yahoo email, i get 400 messages in my BULK folder a week

anyone else use hotmail and havent received junk mail ever since reading about this?

 

coincidence?

anyone else use hotmail and havent received junk mail ever since reading about this?

 

coincidence?

So have I. That is kinda weird...

anyone else use hotmail and havent received junk mail ever since reading about this?

 

coincidence?

I've been getting plenty. Delete, delete, delete. The only difference is all of it has been porn rather than a combo of porn, mortgage offers, credit card offers, make your penis bigger offers, make your tits bigger offers, etc.

still no junk mail since at least last wednesday.