Originally Posted by NTSS

Leading Spammer to Pay $1 Million

One of the worlds notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with
the state of Texas and Microsft Corp. that cost him at least
$1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop
sending the nuisance e-mails.

Ryan Pitylak, 24, who graduated from the University of Texas last month,
has admitted sending 25 million e-mails everyday at the height of his
spamming operation in 2004. As part of the settlement with Microsoft,
Pitylak promised never again to send out false, misleading or unsolicited commercial e-mails. He said he would sell his $430,000 house and a 2005 BMW to help pay his fines and legal bills.

-Associated Press


Should happen more often and I'm surprised there was no mention of any criminal charges.