Virginia To Jail Spammers, Seize Their Assets

The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Internet mavens who clog computers with massive volumes of unsolicited e-mail pitches now risk landing in prison and losing their riches under a tough Virginia law signed Tuesday.
Although about half the states have anti-spam laws, no other state allows authorities to seize the assets earned from spamming while imposing up to five years in prison.
The penalties can apply even if the sender and recipients live elsewhere, because much of the global Internet traffic passes through northern Virginia, home to major online companies such as America Online and MCI and a conduit to major federal communications hubs.

If its true, praise God allmighty. I hope they can enforce it to even a slight extent!

I'm sure this won't work very well. I get this crap all the time. Click the 'remove me' link and, as thought, it's fake. They seem to use fake e-mail addys and probably use someone else's server.

I doubt that it will work. Just how do you prosecute a Romanian student in Kazakhstan.

The remove me link is a classic trick to confirm that they have the correct email address. It's best not to touch it and just set up some rules to delete them or use something like Norton Internet Security to block them.

I've got Norton Internet Security. As for the rules, it's always got a new subject so my rules don't seem to work.

If you've got Norton put some words to search for in the spam blocker. Like sell buy and offer. Blocks almost all of them.

i wish they'd do something about those damn pop ups!

Originally posted by AintNoFantasy
i wish they'd do something about those damn pop ups!

Use Netscape... I never get *any* unwanted pop-up windows

That seems harsh and unenforceable. But its good because I usually get over 100 spams a day!!!!! If I don't erase them everyday by the end of the week I've got over 1,000.

Brian

Originally posted by AgentStarks
Use Netscape... I never get *any* unwanted pop-up windows

LOL, a suggestion to use Nutscrape.

FInally gonna get ride of the damn spam...send that law on down here to Ga.