Godfather Of Spam Gets Custodial Sentence

By Guy Bunker | November 27, 2009 | 1 Comment 

Guy Bunker

The self proclaimed Godfather Of Spam has been sentenced to 51 months in jail for a share pump ‘n’ dump spam scheme. Three of his other cohorts have also received custodial sentences. Perhaps one of the scary pieces of this story is that the crime was committed back in 2004/5 and it has taken until now to achieve a conviction. Following an email trail backwards through the Internet is hard, hence it took a lot of time. The other ‘danger’ is that spammers put fake information into the email headers – and so you, as an innocent company, can end up as part of the investigation just because they used some of your details.

Another scam is also doing the rounds, this is one of the ‘standard’ Christmas ones. You receive a card saying that someone has tried to deliver a package but wasn’t able to… there is a 0906 premium rate number to call… which then charges you £15 for the priviledge of finding out you don’t have a parcel. This works well at Christmas time as people frequently have parcels delivered and cannot be in all the time. So… if you get an undelivered parcel card and you weren’t expecting a delivery… check the number before you call it, and if unsure put the number into Google (or your search engine of choice)… it will probably help in identifying whether it is a scam or not as scams are rapidly reported on the web.

Guy Bunker

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One Response to “Godfather Of Spam Gets Custodial Sentence”

  1. Felix Gomez on November 28th, 2009

    Why is it so long to take time to convict someone? It has been like 5 years!

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