25-year-old man accused of having sent 2 billion spam e-mails

Date: 2008-02-22

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Japanese police in Tokyo have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of having
sent 2.2 billion spam e-mails using forged from: addresses. Japan Today is
reporting that the police received tips from an Internet service provider in
September last year about the suspect. Nine different spam e-mails that he
sent on 13th November for online casinos and dating services then put the
last nail in the coffin for him.

According to the newspaper report, the suspect purchased a list of 600,000
e-mail addresses online for roughly ?630. He then began sending unsolicited
adverts to these addresses from his home, for which he received some ?12,600
from his clients. The suspect is alleged to have sent 2.2 billion e-mails
dating back to May of 2006. Japanese law has prohibited the sending of
e-mails with falsified sender information since 2002.

Source: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/103912

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