Howard Carmack (also known as the Buffalo Spammer) was the first spammer, i.e. notorious sender of spam e-mails, to be sentenced to a time in jail. He was arrested in May 2003 and first freed for a bail of $20,000. The prosecution succeeded in demonstrating to the jury of a court in the state of New York that he had sent out 825 million spam e-mails via the Internet service provider Earthlink, … Wikipedia
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