| Will other spammers take heed? Don't
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| | Associated Press reported that the AOL
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| count on it.Jeremy Jaynes was on top of
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| | names matched a list of 92 million
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| the world. By age 28, he owned a
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| | addresses that an AOL software engineer
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| million-dollar home, a high-class
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| | has been charged with stealing.When
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| restaurant, a chain of gyms and countless
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| | Jaynes' operation was raided,
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| other toys. Yet those were only the
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| | investigators found that the house from
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| spoils of his main line of business,
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| | which he ran his operation was wired with
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| which was swindling innocent people out
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| | 16 T-1 lines (a large office building can
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| of their money through email scams. From
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| | get by on a single T-1 line for all its
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| an unassuming house serving as his
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| | users). Investigators also entered into
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| company's headquarters in Raleigh, NC,
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| | evidence to-do lists handwritten by
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| Jaynes sent an estimated ten million
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| | Jaynes. Take a look at Jeremy Jayne's
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| messages a day pitching products most
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| | meticulously detailed lists at:*
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| recipients didn't want, amassing an
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| | *
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| estimated $24 million fortune in the
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| | * Work if You Can Get (Away With) ItThe
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| process. Using aliases such as Jeremy
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| | economics of spamming makes Jaynes'
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| James and Gaven Stubberfield, Jaynes
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| | decision to build a career of it
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| spammed his way up to the #8 position on
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| | understandable, though not noble.
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| Spamhaus' Register Of Known Spam
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| | Spammers work on the law of averages,
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| Operations (ROKSO) and grossed as much as
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| | which would seem like an odd strategy
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| $750,000 a month, allowing him to live
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| | considering that the average response
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| like a king.However, Jaynes ran head-on
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| | rate for a spam message is just one-tenth
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| into an information superhighway road
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| | of one percent. However, once you do the
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| block when a Virginia judge sentenced him
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| | math even this miniscule response rate
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| to nine years in prison for his November
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| | can make one very wealthy very quickly.
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| 2004 conviction on felony charges of
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| | If a spammer sends one million messages
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| using false IP addresses to send mass
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| | pushing a product width a $40 profit, a
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| email advertisements (some just call it
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| | response rate of 0.1 percent works out to
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| spamming). The conviction was a landmark
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| | 1000 customers, or $40,000 per million
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| decision, as Jaynes became the first
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| | messages sent. Since each message costs
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| person in the United States convicted of
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| | only fractions of a penny to send, and
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| felony spam charges. Though his operation
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| | Jaynes was sending literally billions of
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| was based in North Carolina, Jaynes was
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| | messages a year, it's easy to see how he
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| tried in Virginia because it is home to a
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| | pulled in $400,000 to $750,000 a month,
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| large number of the routers that control
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| | while spending perhaps $50,000 on
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| much of North America's Internet traffic
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| | bandwidth and other overhead.The fact
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| (it's also the home of AOL and a
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| | that spamming can be such a profitable
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| government building or two).He should've
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| | undertaking means that the profession is
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| Used the Privacy SoftwareDuring the
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| | not likely to go anywhere in the near
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| trial, prosecutors focused on three of
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| | future. Spammers have financial
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| Jaynes' most egregious scams: software
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| | motivation to come up with innovative
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| that promised to protect users' private
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| | ways to avoid detection, and they have
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| information; a service for choosing penny
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| | begun to join forces. While the landmark
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| stocks to invest in; and a work-from-home
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| | decision handed down in the Jaynes trial
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| "FedEx refund processor" opportunity that
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| | may serve as a deterrent to some would-be
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| promised $75-an-hour work but did little
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| | spammers, it is unlikely that the threat
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| more than give buyers access to a website
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| | of prosecution will keep future spammers
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| of delinquent FedEx accounts. Sound
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| | from refining their trade. For now and
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| familiar? Anyone with an e-mail address
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| | the foreseeable future, the answer still
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| has received countless messages
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| | lies in technology, not law
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| originating from Jaynes' operation. (If
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| | enforcement.Dr. Paul Judge is a noted
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| you're still waiting on your privacy
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| | scholar and entrepreneur. He is Chief
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| software to show up, it's probably safe
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| | Technology Officer at CipherTrust, the
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| to stop checking the mailbox.)Jaynes got
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| | industry's largest provider of enterprise
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| lists of millions of email addresses
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| | email security. The company's flagship
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| through a stolen database of America
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| | product, IronMail provides a best of
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| Online customers. He also illegally
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| | breed enterprise anti spam solution
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| obtained e-mail addresses of eBay users.
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| | designed to stop spam, phishing attacks
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| While the prosecutors still don't know
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| | and other email-based threats. Learn more
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| how Jaynes got access to the lists, the
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| | by visiting today.
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