From News.com:
WASHINGTON–Spammers, beware: more criminal spam prosecutions–complete with stiff prison sentences and mandatory forfeiture of relevant valuables–are on the way in the coming months, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Thursday.
"I think the healthy dose of jail time plus lose-your-money is working," Mona Sedky Spivack, a trial attorney in the Justice Department’s computer crime and intellectual property unit, said at the second day of a Federal Trade Commission spam summit here. "I hope that provides a deterrent effect to other would-be criminal spammers out there."