NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison
on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers
of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's
spam-filtering system.
Scot Lif****ne, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after
pleading guilty more than a year ago to breaking anti-spam laws. He was
also ordered to pay $180,000 to AOL in restitution.
Vitale was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk
e-mails -- known as spam -- that advertised a computer security program
in return for 50 percent of the product's profits, prosecutors said.
"Spamming is serious criminal conduct; this is not a teenager engaging
in child's play," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin told Vitale as he
sentenced him. Vitale earlier apologized and said he had learned a
lesson.
Prosecutors said Lif****ne had 22 prior convictions and had also helped
run an online prostitution ring on the Web site www.craigslist.com, but
he has not been criminally charged.
In the spam e-mail case, Lif****ne and another man, Todd Moeller,
defeated AOL's filter system by using several different computer servers
to relay the e-mails and changed the e-mail header information to ensure
the spam e-mails could not be traced back to them.
Moeller, of New Jersey, was sentenced last November to 27 months for his
role in the scheme.
Court papers said that in less than a week in August 2005, Lif****ne and
Moeller sent e-mails on behalf of the informant to more than 1,277,000
addresses of subscribers at AOL, the online division of Time Warner Inc.
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