06.13.07
Spam King may rule prison cell for 11 years after Feds nail him
One of the most notorious spammers in the US has pleaded guilty to violating the CAN-SPAM Act. He and his partner reportedly made over $40,000 per week during the height of their activities.
According to court documents, Moeller and Vitale had devised a way to defeat AOL’s filtering system. During one week in August 2005, the two of them managed to target over 1.27 million AOL e-mail addresses with spam. The indictment accuses of them of violating a section of the CAN-SPAM Act that says that “the volume of electronic mail messages transmitted in furtherance of the offense exceeded 2,500 during any 24-hour period, 25,000 during any 30-day period, or 250,000 during any 1-year period.” The charges appear to be limited solely to the activities involving the government informant, despite the pair’s long track record with spam.
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