A Los Angeles man was convicted of spam e-mailing, the first such case in the United States. Jeffery Goodin was found guilty of running a scam that fooled users into giving out personal information, believing they were working with a legitimate business. Goodin compromised AOL accounts to send out e-mails appearing to be from AOL’s billing department. He sent millions of e-mails during the course of his career as a spammer. He is convicted of spam and ten other counts, and will be sentenced in June 2007 to a maximum of 101 years in prison.

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