Man gets prison after hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails

[Woodmonkey]

Man gets prison after hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails


A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.

Thirty-five-year-old Edward "Eddie" Davidson of Louisville was also ordered to pay nearly $715,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. He was sentenced Monday and ordered to report to prison authorities in May.

Federal prosecutors say Davidson's operation used false e-mail headers to disguise the sender. Prosecutors say some of the spam was meant to dupe stock investors and manipulate markets.

Authorities say Davidson made at least $3.5 million sending e-mails for nearly 20 companies.

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[leobold1]

Breaks my heart.

My E-mail spam folder normally has over 300 spam e-mails per day (the one I have that is used just for signing up for things that need an e-mail addy to join). My main e-mail addy is lucky to get over 10 per day, because I control who has access to it.

[Woodmonkey]

I have the same situation.

[Snowden]

So have I; in Yahoo alone, there are hundreds every week. I don't know about my other account because I seldom go in there -- I just get the mail in Outlook Express and there is very little spam in that.