Defendant in spam case pleads guilty

Daniel Lin, the first person prosecuted under the 2004 federal antispam law, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felony charges, federal prosecutors announced.

Two of the counts were related to sending millions of unsolicited spam e-mails, and the third was for a firearms violation. Lin, 30, faces a possible five-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine, federal officials said. Lin and three other men, all from West Bloomfield Township, Mich., were accused of operating an illegal spam operation. The group sent more than 450,000 spam advertisements for fraudulent weight-loss and erectile dysfunction products, according to reports. Lin is scheduled to be sentenced in May.

[BMR777]

Hopefully We'll see more of this...

Hopefully more people like these will meet the same fate as this guy.

Massive Spam = Not Good

[jonbocz]

Combined charges

2 charges of spam, and a weapons charge? Did he have an assault rifle setting beside the computer, or was he carrying an illegal handgun? How does a weapons charge get added into this? Or was it added to show how evil this person is?

Any time the gov't wants to demonize a person, they manage to add a weapons charge against them. You'd think that US citizens had the right to keep and bear arms.

[dUc0N]

But it could be...

It seems like a pretty strange mix, I'll agree, but he was also wrapped up in some fraud schemes. He might well have had an illegal weapon, particularly if he knew he'd get caught eventually and that they'd be looking for him.