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on Tue Jul 13, 2010
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Jul 13, 2010
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to his role in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that authorities say used computers at universities - including the University of Missouri - to illegally harvest e-mail addresses.
Paul Zucker, 57, pleaded guilty in Kansas City today.
According to federal investigators, Zucker used an e-mail scheme that from January 2004 to April 2009 targeted hundreds of colleges and universities across the U.S. Those involved in the scheme developed e-mail extracting programs , which they used to secure more than eight million student e-mail addresses from servers at the colleges and universities.
Those involved in the scheme used the database of e-mail addresses to send spam selling various products and services to those students.
Zucker is subject to a sentence of up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
