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Spammer in the Slammer: Jeremy Jaynes Sentenced to Nine Years

Will other spammers take heed? Don't count on92 million addresses that an AOL software
it.Jeremy Jaynes was on top of the world. Byengineer has been charged with stealing.When
age 28, he owned a million-dollar home, aJaynes' operation was raided, investigators
high-class restaurant, a chain of gyms andfound that the house from which he ran his
countless other toys. Yet those were only theoperation was wired with 16 T-1 lines (a
spoils of his main line of business, whichlarge office building can get by on a single
was swindling innocent people out of theirT-1 line for all its users). Investigators
money through email scams. From an unassumingalso entered into evidence to-do lists
house serving as his company's headquartershandwritten by Jaynes. Take a look at Jeremy
in Raleigh, NC, Jaynes sent an estimated tenJayne's  meticulously  detailed  lists  at:*
million messages a day pitching products most
recipients didn't want, amassing an estimated*
$24 million fortune in the process. Using
aliases such as Jeremy James and Gaven* Work if You Can Get (Away With) ItThe
Stubberfield, Jaynes spammed his way up toeconomics of spamming makes Jaynes' decision
the #8 position on Spamhaus' Register Ofto build a career of it understandable,
Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) and grossed asthough not noble. Spammers work on the law of
much as $750,000 a month, allowing him toaverages, which would seem like an odd
live like a king.However, Jaynes ran head-onstrategy considering that the average
into an information superhighway road blockresponse rate for a spam message is just
when a Virginia judge sentenced him to nineone-tenth of one percent. However, once you
years in prison for his November 2004do the math even this miniscule response rate
conviction on felony charges of using falsecan make one very wealthy very quickly. If a
IP addresses to send mass emailspammer sends one million messages pushing a
advertisements (some just call it spamming).product width a $40 profit, a response rate
The conviction was a landmark decision, asof 0.1 percent works out to 1000 customers,
Jaynes became the first person in the Unitedor $40,000 per million messages sent. Since
States convicted of felony spam charges.each message costs only fractions of a penny
Though his operation was based in Northto send, and Jaynes was sending literally
Carolina, Jaynes was tried in Virginiabillions of messages a year, it's easy to see
because it is home to a large number of thehow he pulled in $400,000 to $750,000 a
routers that control much of North America'smonth, while spending perhaps $50,000 on
Internet traffic (it's also the home of AOLbandwidth and other overhead.The fact that
and a government building or two).Hespamming can be such a profitable undertaking
should've Used the Privacy SoftwareDuring themeans that the profession is not likely to go
trial, prosecutors focused on three ofanywhere in the near future. Spammers have
Jaynes' most egregious scams: software thatfinancial motivation to come up with
promised to protect users' privateinnovative ways to avoid detection, and they
information; a service for choosing pennyhave begun to join forces. While the landmark
stocks to invest in; and a work-from-homedecision handed down in the Jaynes trial may
"FedEx refund processor" opportunity thatserve as a deterrent to some would-be
promised $75-an-hour work but did little morespammers, it is unlikely that the threat of
than give buyers access to a website ofprosecution will keep future spammers from
delinquent FedEx accounts. Sound familiar?refining their trade. For now and the
Anyone with an e-mail address has receivedforeseeable future, the answer still lies in
countless messages originating from Jaynes'technology, not law enforcement.Dr. Paul
operation. (If you're still waiting on yourJudge is a noted scholar and entrepreneur. He
privacy software to show up, it's probablyis Chief Technology Officer at CipherTrust,
safe to stop checking the mailbox.)Jaynes gotthe industry's largest provider of enterprise
lists of millions of email addresses throughemail security. The company's flagship
a stolen database of America Onlineproduct, IronMail provides a best of breed
customers. He also illegally obtained e-mailenterprise anti spam solution designed to
addresses of eBay users. While thestop spam, phishing attacks and other
prosecutors still don't know how Jaynes gotemail-based threats. Learn more by visiting
access to the lists, the Associated Presstoday.
reported that the AOL names matched a list of



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