Portrait of a Spammer

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The Linthicum MD spammer is alledged to sell pirated Norton software. Another in IL is subject to court action according the CNN:

from "FTC tries to shut down spam e-mail operation":
The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that after receiving about 46,000 complaints it had asked a federal judge to halt the operation until there can be a trial. It is the first FTC case involving spam with deceptive subject lines, the agency said.

"When consumers opened the e-mail messages, they were immediately subjected to sexually explicit solicitations," the FTC said. "Because of the deceptive subject lines, consumers had no reason to expect to see such material."

Children may have been exposed to the pornographic e-mail, the agency said.