Yes, I know I’m going to hell, Says Spammer

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

If God uses a computer he certainly will. Ed, former spammer, has written a book on spamming called Inside the Spam Cartel: Trade Secrets from the Dark Side. He talks about the life of a spammer taking it toll, he couldn’t talk to girls about what he did, he couldn’t withdraw all the money and cram it in shoeboxes, and he says he’s really a nice guy, “Trust me,” he said.

“Ed,” a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn, and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pulled in $10,000 to $15,000 a week, storing the money in $20 bills in stacks of boxes.

It was a life of greed and excess, one that preyed especially on vulnerable people hoping to score drugs or win money gambling on the Internet. From when he was expelled from high school at 17 until he quit his spam career at 22, Ed — who does not reveal his full name but sometimes goes by SpammerX — was part of an electronic underworld profiting from the Internet via spam. Source: Confessions of a former spammer

We Say: Shouldn’t he have to pay some money back or something? I mean, if someone killed someone and admitted it a couple years later, they would still have to go to jail, right? Why not “Ed”?