News.com reports:
A New York state man who sent out millions of junk e-mails was sentenced to three-and-a-half to seven years in prison, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday.
Howard Carmack, known as the “Buffalo Spammer,” received the maximum sentence for 14 counts of identity theft and forgery, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said.
Carmack sent out 825 million bulk e-mail messages using stolen identities and forged addresses, the court found, and was the first defendant to face charges under the state’s new identity-theft statute. . . .
Carmack could be out in three-and-a-half years should he behave in prison . . .
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