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• Convicted data thief gets eight years

  A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, US prosecutors said on Wednesday.

• Legal experts urge spam leniency

  While many e-mail account holders would like to throw spammers in the slammer and throw away the key, some legal experts are arguing for leniency in enforcing the federal Can-Spam law.

• UK teen sentenced for Randex virus

  A British teenager has been sentenced for his part in writing and distributing the Randex worm which turned infected PCs into 'zombies', controlled by spammers and designed to send out vast quantities of unsolicited email.

• Spammer faces up to two years in jail

  A Detroit-area man is facing at least two years in jail on charges that he sent millions of spam messages over a number of high-profile company networks in violation of the Can-Spam Act.

• Internet spammer sentenced

  A Queensland man has received a two-year suspended sentence for spamming up to four million people and placing misleading messages on Internet bulletin boards in an attempt to hike up the value of shares in a US company.

Features and Case Studies (1)

• Tech execs: Wake up and smell the spam

  It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.

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