Webmasters Convicted In Arizona on Spamming and Money Laundering Charges

[Mutt]

http://www.azcentral.com/community/n...ions26-ON.html

Associated Press
Jun. 25, 2007 05:14 PM

A Paradise Valley man and a Californian were convicted Monday by a federal jury on all eight counts stemming from an international pornographic spamming business they operated, federal authorities said.

The jury convicted James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., and Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, Calif., on charges including conspiracy, money laundering, fraud and transportation of obscene materials after a three-week trial.

The defendants organized and ran the spamming business in 2004, and their trial was the first to include charges under a 2003 act aimed at controlling non-solicited porn and marketing, U.S. Attorney Dan Knauss and Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher said.

The law created by the act was designed to crack down on the transmission of pornography in commercial unsolicited bulk electronic mail messages.

Fisher said the men grossed more than $2 million sending unwanted sexually explicit e-mails to hundreds of thousands of people, including families and children, while using sophisticated technology to conceal their identity.

The defendants arranged to log remotely onto servers in Amsterdam when the anti-spam act took effect in January 2004, to disguise that they were operating their business from within the United States.

They used bank accounts in the Republic of Mauritius and the Isle of Man to insulate themselves from U.S. law enforcement, authorities said.

Witnesses included three U.S. citizens who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Kilbride and Schaffer and aiding and abetting the operation as a whole, and eight citizens who complained to either the Federal Trade Commission or AOL Inc.

Kilbride and Schaffer face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each spam act and obscenity offense, as well as a fine of up to $500,000, and a maximum of 20 years in prison for money laundering. Sentencing was set for Sept. 24.

[TampaToker]

ouch lol

[Mr Pheer]

sucks to be those guys

[Sly]

I know who Schaffer was but drawing a blank on Kilbride.

Bummer. Apparently logging in to remote servers is "sophisticated", hehe.

[siccmade]

Scary.....

[DatingGold]

that would suck.. murderers get less time

[DaddyHalbucks]

Originally Posted by Mutt

http://www.azcentral.com/community/n...ions26-ON.html

Associated Press
Jun. 25, 2007 05:14 PM

A Paradise Valley man and a Californian were convicted Monday by a federal jury on all eight counts stemming from an international pornographic spamming business they operated, federal authorities said.

The jury convicted James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., and Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, Calif., on charges including conspiracy, money laundering, fraud and transportation of obscene materials after a three-week trial.

The defendants organized and ran the spamming business in 2004, and their trial was the first to include charges under a 2003 act aimed at controlling non-solicited porn and marketing, U.S. Attorney Dan Knauss and Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher said.

The law created by the act was designed to crack down on the transmission of pornography in commercial unsolicited bulk electronic mail messages.

Fisher said the men grossed more than $2 million sending unwanted sexually explicit e-mails to hundreds of thousands of people, including families and children, while using sophisticated technology to conceal their identity.

The defendants arranged to log remotely onto servers in Amsterdam when the anti-spam act took effect in January 2004, to disguise that they were operating their business from within the United States.

They used bank accounts in the Republic of Mauritius and the Isle of Man to insulate themselves from U.S. law enforcement, authorities said.

Witnesses included three U.S. citizens who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Kilbride and Schaffer and aiding and abetting the operation as a whole, and eight citizens who complained to either the Federal Trade Commission or AOL Inc.

Kilbride and Schaffer face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each spam act and obscenity offense, as well as a fine of up to $500,000, and a maximum of 20 years in prison for money laundering. Sentencing was set for Sept. 24.

There is a very important lesson here: going offshore is not a blank check.

[NoComments]

Originally Posted by Sly

I know who Schaffer was

DJ? ............

[Tempest]

Sweet....

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by Tempest

Sweet....

how does those two getting convicted help you?

[Mutt]

anybody know what nickname she posted on boards under?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03...th_conviction/

Work-at-home mum in net filth conviction

From MommyJobs to JoeJobs
By John Leyden

Jennifer Clason, 33, of Raymond, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to two offences under the US CAN-SPAM Act, and one count of criminal conspiracy, at a federal court hearing in Phoenix, Arizona on Monday. Clason, who's agreed to pay back the money she made from her anti-social activities, faces up to five years imprisonment on each count at a sentencing hearing scheduled for 5 June.

According to a plea bargaining agreement, Clason conspired together with two men (named as Jeffrey A Kilbride, 39, of Venice, California, and James R Schaffer, 39, of Paradise Valley, Arizona) in a gang that allegedly distributed numerous spam emails containing graphic pornographic images. Kilbride and Schaffer deny spamming, conspiracy and money laundering offences. Their trial has been scheduled to begin on 6 June.

The case against the trio followed more than 600,000 complaints from AOL users that they had received spam messages promoting adult pornographic websites between January and June 2004. Kilbride and Schaffer allegedly used bank accounts in Mauritius and the Isle of Man in order to launder and distribute the proceeds of their spamming operation.

Two other people, Andrew D Ellifson, 31, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Kirk F Rogers, 43, of Manhattan Beach, California, have already pleaded guilty to offences under the US CAN-SPAM Act over their involvement in the operation. They are due to join Clason in the dock at the sentencing hearing on 5 June.

In between bombarding net users with porno spam and caring for her kids, Clason ran a website (mommyjobs.com) that offered help to mothers seeking to work at home as an alternative to office jobs and other forms of regular employment. In a brief bio posted on the site, Clason said she's been "running a full-time home-based internet business for seven years", and that she owns more than 10 different internet sales websites.

[Tempest]

You're over a year late...

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...ennifer+Clason

JenC

[ZoneMaster]

Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks

There is a very important lesson here: going offshore is not a blank check.

Not if you are a US resident....

BTW... You forgot your referral links *lol*