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LEESBURG, Va., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Virginia jury has handed down the country's first convictions for sending spam e-mails, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
Jeremy Jaynes, 30, and his sister Jessica DeGroot, 28, both of Raleigh, N.C., were found guilty of three felony charges each for using phony Internet addresses to send large volumes of e-mail ads through an AOL server in Loudoun County, Va.
"This is a major victory for Virginians and all Americans," said Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. "Spam is a nuisance to millions of Americans, but it is also a major problem for businesses large and small because the thousands of unwanted e-mails create havoc as they attempt to conduct commerce."
During five days of testimony, prosecutors said the defendants used fake Internet addresses to send more than 10,000 spam e-mails to AOL subscribers on three days in July 2003 -- a volume that made the crime a felony. The ads, they said, pitched low-priced stock pickers, a software product and an offer to work from home as a "FedEx refund processor."
The jury recommended Jaynes spend nine years in prison and that DeGroot pay $7,500 in fines for violating Virginia's anti-spam law.
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