A US judge has sentenced a man to nine years in prison for violating anti-spam laws by sending out millions of unsolicited emails using fake addresses.
The judge in Virginia sentenced Jeremy Jaynes of North Carolina accepting the recommendation of a jury that convicted him last November, prosecutor Lisa Hicks-Thomas said.
Ms Hicks-Thomas said the sentence under Virginia law was the first prison term in the United States in a spam case, adding that the state law on spam was used to model a federal spam law approved later by Congress.
“It was not just sending bulk emails, he was falsifying the routing information, disguising the origin,” Ms Hicks-Thomas said.
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