http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16944967/from/RS.1/
[i]OPTA said it considered several factors, including the sheer volume of the messages, saying the 9 billion was a “minimum” estimate.[/i]
This guy was only fined 97,000? Ummmm, how much damage was caused to infected machines he used to spew his spam???
[i]Another aggravating factor was that this person used hundreds of so-called proxies,” OPTA said. That’s a common spamming technique in which computers of unsuspecting users are commandeered, often using viruses or other malicious software, to conceal the messages’ true origins, making them more likely to slip by anti-spam filters.[/i]
yea, we finally got one. booo, he was only fined 97,000…. Bloody should have add 3 zero’s to that, and then given him 5 years in jail. Christ
Dan