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Isn't the law just great?
Topic Started: Jan 19 2007, 10:53 PM (916 Views)
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Jeffery Goodin faces 101 years in prison for spam

A report on the Mercury News revealed that a man from Los Angeles has been criminally convicted of spam e-mailing and is the first person to be convicted of such a crime in the U.S. Forty-five year old Jeffery Goodin was found guilty of running a running scam that fooled users into giving out personal information. E-mails that Goodin sent out made users believe that they were cooperating with a legitimate business when in fact they were not.

Goodin is convicted under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, which makes it illegal for marketers to send out false or misleading information to users. Goodin sent millions of these e-mails over the course of his spam career. The CAN-SPAM Act also dictates that legitimate e-mails such as newsletters and advertisements must feature a way for recipients to remove themselves from the mailing list.

Prosecutors provided evidence to a jury that Goodin also compromised AOL accounts to send out e-mail to users. Goodin's spam made it appear like his e-mails were being sent from AOL's billing department and told users that if they did not update their information via a website, their accounts would be closed.

Goodin is being convicted of spam, and ten other counts that include wire fraud and unauthorized access to AOL accounts and company trademarks for illegal purposes. He is to be sentenced on June 11th of 2007 and faces up to 101 years in prison.
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Well, he deserves prison time, but I don't think he should get 101 years.
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Yeah, I say he deserves prison time, just not 101 years.
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Wow, I thought they just had that law to scare people. I don't think he deserves any jail time at all. If you fall for scams like that you shouldn't own a computer.
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karinama
Jan 20 2007, 02:56 AM
Well, he deserves prison time, but I don't think he should get 101 years.

I agree, Possibly 100 lol no maybe like 10 - 15 tops?
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It's a fair law, but 101 years? Seems a little obsessive. O_o
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lukyboy2435
Jan 20 2007, 02:59 AM
Wow, I thought they just had that law to scare people. I don't think he deserves any jail time at all. If you fall for scams like that you shouldn't own a computer.

People should not create these scams to begin with. Sometimes people aren't all that smart. Personal information is personal information; it is wrong to take it by fraud. Indentity theft is illegal and this is what it is referring to.
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karinama
Jan 19 2007, 11:06 PM
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Jan 20 2007, 02:59 AM
Wow, I thought they just had that law to scare people. I don't think he deserves any jail time at all. If you fall for scams like that you shouldn't own a computer.

People should not create these scams to begin with. Sometimes people aren't all that smart. Personal information is personal information; it is wrong to take it by fraud. Indentity theft is illegal and this is what it is referring to.

Still, most of them are completely rediculous. As a rule never answer any official e-mails from big companies, they can call you if they need you.
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I hope you don't mind me asking, but could I see the source of it? Not doubting you or anything, I just think 101 years seems a bit... much?
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That is pretty great.
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LOLOWND.

That just made my damn day. Thank you.
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Jan 19 2007, 07:11 PM
I hope you don't mind me asking, but could I see the source of it? Not doubting you or anything, I just think 101 years seems a bit... much?

Oh no problem, I should have seen that coming.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5782
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Jan 19 2007, 09:24 PM
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Jan 19 2007, 07:11 PM
I hope you don't mind me asking, but could I see the source of it? Not doubting you or anything, I just think 101 years seems a bit... much?

Oh no problem, I should have seen that coming.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5782

Woah :o I just looked on Google, and saw something that said the average prison term for a murder is 29 years. Harsh O_o
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SyringeX
Jan 20 2007, 03:28 AM
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Jan 19 2007, 09:24 PM
SyringeX
Jan 19 2007, 07:11 PM
I hope you don't mind me asking, but could I see the source of it? Not doubting you or anything, I just think 101 years seems a bit... much?

Oh no problem, I should have seen that coming.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5782

Woah :o I just looked on Google, and saw something that said the average prison term for a murder is 29 years. Harsh O_o

Murder doesn't flood your inbox. :haha:
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Well, tell me this. If this happend to you, and you had almost no computer experience at all, what would you want? Say that you just got your first computer, and you got internet along with it. You don't currently know that AOL is not needed and you don't realize how big of scam AOL is. So, when you get a message notifying you that your hard earned money is not enough, or your AOL account isn't completely verified, therefore being "open to phishers", your eyes begin to open and you suddenly realize that this internet isn't as safe as you had thought...

So you decide to stay on the safe side, and enter your info, hoping for a legitimate solution to this problem, only to find that $100's of dollars are being transferred from your credit card or checking account to an unknown source. You notify AOL and it doesn't end. AOL notifies you of what has just happend to you and reccomends to you that you need to close your checking or credit card account. You immediately go to the bank and try to close the account. You eventually find out that $10,000+ dollars have been transferred from your account to an unknown source.

Now, tell me you wouldn't want the person who did this to you to suffer for what he/she has done. I don't know about you but I'd want that person to stay in jail for the rest of their life!
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