RE: [Asrg] 0: General Spammer sentenced to 7 years in prison

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On May 29, 2004 at 19:29 william at elan.net (william(at)elan.net) wrote:
 > I agree. Although I suspect that most hard core spammers will move overseas.
 > They likely already keep most money in offshore accounts.

Moving overseas provides questionable protection these days, unless
you're really willing to move to some total anarchy or have enough
money to afford an off-shore haven which I doubt these dirtbags can
afford, that costs millions, those guys won't protect you out of
principle.

But, more importantly, to spam e.g. Americans, there has to be a
product to spam.

And hiring someone to do something illegal is illegal.

So, they can move, perhaps, but when their customers start getting hit
with arrest warrants their business is going to dry up.

Also, I remember when the junk fax laws began taking effect. Junk
faxes may still exist, but they quickly dropped by about 98%.

I think most of these two-bit sociopaths will work in the grey areas,
but once the heat is turned up they'll go find some other outlet for
their mental illness like kidnapping people's pets and selling them to
medical labs.

Remember that Spamford Wallace became a spammer because the junk fax
laws made him close up his former junk fax biz, probably for both
reasons (customers dried up and the prospect of legal troubles wasn't
worth it, this ain't scarface.)

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