CNN: Suspect in federal spam case pleads guilty
 

CNN: Suspect in federal spam case pleads guilty

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- The main defendant in America's first prosecution under a 2004 federal anti-spam law pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felony charges, federal prosecutors said.

Daniel J. Lin, 30, of West Bloomfield Township faces nearly five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit said.
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Court papers described a complex web of corporate identities, bank accounts and electronic storefronts used to send hundreds of thousands of e-mail sales pitches for fraudulent weight-loss and erectile dysfunction products.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Two of the counts are fraud charges involving millions of unsolicited spam e-mails sent to computer users. The other is possession of a firearm by a felon, for guns discovered when authorities raided Lin's suburban Detroit home.


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Sounds like they are talking about a phisher/fraudster, not just spam? Correct me if I am wrong.