An alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of “spam king” has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States. Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet, charged that Jeremy Jaynes, 29 — also known as Jeremy James and Gaven Stubberfield, among other possible aliases — sent thousands of commercial messages through servers in Virginia and falsified transmission or routing information to mask the origin of the spam.
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U.S. Spam King Arrested, Indicted by Grand Jury
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 12, 2003 03:16 PMAn alleged sender of unsolicited e-mail whose success earned him the title of “spam king” has been arrested in Virginia in what is being called the first felony prosecution of a spammer in the United States. Virginia officials, who announced the arrest with AOL, MCI and UUNet, charged that Jeremy Jaynes, 29 — also known as Jeremy James and Gaven Stubberfield, among other possible aliases — sent thousands of commercial messages through servers in Virginia and falsified transmission or routing information to mask the origin of the spam.