| | + | *Up to "a total of 60 years in prison and fines of $1.75 million" face botnet user John Schiefer, convicted of 4 felonies for "accessing protected computers, disclosing illegally intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud and bank fraud." Some of his accomplices were teenagers.<ref>[http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9046499&intsrc=hm_list]</ref> |
| | *"A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona convicted Jeffrey Kilbride, 41, of Venice, California and James Schaffer, 41 of Paradise Valley, Arizona of eight counts, including conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and transportation of obscene materials. ... They face up to five years in jail for each spam and obscenity offense and a fine of up to $500,000 and up to 20 years for money laundering. They will be sentenced in September" 2007.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/can_spam_convictions/</ref> | | *"A federal jury in Phoenix, Arizona convicted Jeffrey Kilbride, 41, of Venice, California and James Schaffer, 41 of Paradise Valley, Arizona of eight counts, including conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and transportation of obscene materials. ... They face up to five years in jail for each spam and obscenity offense and a fine of up to $500,000 and up to 20 years for money laundering. They will be sentenced in September" 2007.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/can_spam_convictions/</ref> |