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The law is catching up, at least to one of the many people sending out millions of spam e-mail.

One more spammer is heading off to jail, but not before he managed to bilk at least several hundred people out of $400,000 or more. Michael Dolan, 24, has been sentenced to seven years in jail—the maximum he could have received—followed by three years of supervised release. Dolan and a group of co-conspirators ran a scheme from 2002-2006 in which they first trolled AOL chatrooms for user names, then bombarded these users with phishing attempts.

Can’t say I feel too bad for him.

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HT: Megan McArdle
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