Spam King sentenced to be Jail King for 30 months

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Spam King sentenced to be Jail King for 30 months

Convicted "Spam king" Adam Vitale was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday, for spamming more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers. Vitale had boasted of using 35,000 proxy computers to bypass AOL's spam filters with greater than 80 percent successful delivery to members.

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