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'''Howard Carmack''' (also known as the '''Buffalo Spammer''') was the first sender of [[spam (e-mail)|spam]], to be convicted in a U.S. court.
'''Howard Carmack''' (also known as the '''Buffalo Spammer''') was the first sender of [[spam (e-mail)|spam]] to be convicted in a U.S. court.


He was arrested in New York in May 2003 [http://www.oag.state.ny.us/media_center/2003/may/may14a_03.html] and sentenced in March 2004 to between 3.5 and 7 years in prison.
He was arrested in New York in May 2003 [http://www.oag.state.ny.us/media_center/2003/may/may14a_03.html] and sentenced in March 2004 to between 3.5 and 7 years in prison.

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Howard Carmack (also known as the Buffalo Spammer) was the first sender of spam to be convicted in a U.S. court.

He was arrested in New York in May 2003 [1] and sentenced in March 2004 to between 3.5 and 7 years in prison.

Carmack sent out 825 million e-mails via the Internet service provider Earthlink, fraudulently using the identities of two people from the city of Buffalo as well as hundreds of aliases. [2]

Before this conviction, Carmack also lost a lawsuit before a federal court in Atlanta, which required him to pay damages of US$14.5 million to the internet service provider Earthlink for the same actions. [3]

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