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Project Honeypot to trap spammers

[via NewScientist]
A blow-by-blow account of how one of the world's most prolific senders of spam email was tracked down and prosecuted had an audience of spam fighters on the edge of their seats last week.

After years developing anti-spam technology and drafting legislation to outlaw spammers, the delegates at MIT's annual Spam Conference in Boston, US, were overjoyed to see the culprit nailed. "A successful trial with all the time and resources we're spending on this issue just feels so good," says Jonathan Zdziarsky, an anti-spam software expert.

Jeremy Jaynes was found guilty last November by a state court in Leesburg, Virginia, of sending more than 10 million unsolicited emails a day. He was hawking pornography, work-at-home schemes and stock-picking software.

The spams are estimated to have earned him around $750,000 a month. He is now on $1 million bail, forbidden from using the internet and will be sentenced this month. The jury has recommended he gets a nine-year jail term.

"Everyone in the courtroom understood that this verdict was a precedent-setting, awe-inspiring moment," says lawyer Jon Praed of the Internet Law Group in Washington DC, who was an observer at Jaynes's trial. It was the first time the criminal law had been used to such effect against a spammer, and the case highlights how legislation and technology are combining to beat spam.