A federal judge sentenced internationally known e-mail spammer Christopher William Smith on Wednesday to 30 years in prison for running an illegal Internet pharmacy that sold about $24 million in prescription drugs.
U.S. District Judge Michael Davis called Smith, 27, a "drug kingpin" as he meted out the sentence requested by federal prosecutors. Though Davis expressed some misgivings about the length of the prison term recommended by sentencing guidelines, he said it was nonetheless reasonable.
The government argued for a long sentence because of Smith's flagrant defiance of judicial orders and his death threat against a witness in the case. Just days after a federal judge shut down the Burnsville pharmacy in May 2005 and ordered Smith to refrain from selling drugs, Smith traveled to the Dominican Republic using a false passport and took steps to open a new online pharmacy. He even withdrew money that had been frozen by a previous court order.
Saying that spam levels went down for me but have recently shot back up again with "the united states national med association". Luckily my spam filter gets them. That's what i get for putting my email address in my themes never thought they'd be able to get within the tar file.
....................My site: www.vthemes.co.uk .........................* no questions asked *
yup it's been bad for me recently too, but what's even worse is we have a couple of customers at work that seem to think that spam filters should be 100% successful, so every time they get a spam mail they forward it to me asking why they've received it ffs
