The problem with criminal fines is nobody ever pays them. We have over 100 criminal fraud judgements against former and current spammers, and they all carry fines. How are the fines collected? The judge reviews their personal financial condition and establishes a monthly payment that they can afford. Everyone knows that personal financial statements can be made to look like a person is living in poverty. In one case a fine of $1,250,000 is getting repaid at an astounding rate of $30 per month. And after a certain number of years they can appeal for a reduction or elimination of payments. There's no interest.
Jail time means something. Granted, they can get probation and walk free after a short time. But even a few months in jail is time without spam from that person, and maybe the jail time is unpleasant enough to make them reconsider returning to their profession. The only people that will hit the spammers' pocketbooks are the ISPs getting together and forcing them out of their jobs... or to get people to stop buying their stuff! > -----Original Message----- > From: Burzin Sumariwalla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Virginia Indicts Two Men On > Spam Charges > > > If you want to stop this stuff, hit 'em in the pocketbook. > These actions > are economically induced. This means fining them and > shutting down the > routing of their network traffic. Easier said than done, I know... --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
