Spammer to pay AOL over $5 million

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Feb 1, 2006

Company wins case against prolific spammer.

AOL is waiting to receive $5.6 million this month after winning its case against 25-year-old Minnesota spammer Christopher William Smith. Smith, whom AOL says it has been pursuing for three years, sent billions of spam messages via the company's email service and has now been ordered to pay $25,000 for every day he sent out spam emails, plus $287,059 to cover the company's legal fees.

Smith, who is reported to have been living it up in a $1.1 million house until his arrest, now resides in prison, awaiting an October trial in Minneapolis on federal charges that he operated an illegal online pharmacy during 2004 and 2005.

Posted on 01 February 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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