Virginia Official Discusses the Fight Against Cyber-Crime

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "When they indicted him, in late 2003, Jaemes had 16 T1 lines connected to the attic work room of a lovely rented house in a Raleigh, N.C., suburb, at a cost of about $45,000 a month to the local phone company. But Jaemes was pulling in $20 million a month sending out spam." }-
Story (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1959790,00.asp?)

[Paranoid2000]

$20 million a month?! That must be a mistake, there surely can't be that many (rich) idiots on AOL. The comment about Virginia seeing traffic due to AOL/MCI's presence is ironic though, since MCI is the current top Spam Hosting ISP (http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso).

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "$20 million a month?!" }-
A half million dollars a year just for the T1 lines. :D Bizarre story all the way around.

-{ Quote: "since at the trial he revealed that he'd made over $20 million from spamming," }-

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