International efforts to halt spam are ramping up this week with the news that the notorious Buffalo Spammer will be spending a few years in the clink and flagship anti-spam organisation SpamHaus has charmed the Chinese government into taking the problem seriously.
The Buffalo Spammer so-called because he operated out of Buffalo, New York has been found guilty of sending more than 825 million spam emails.
The spammer, real name Howard Carmack, will be sentenced to between three and a half and seven years for his crimes. He was convicted on 14 counts of fraud under a recently passed identity theft law.
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