In brief A Russian teenager has been fined 3,000 roubles ($103) after being convicted of spamming 15,000 mobile phones. The university student hacked into a mobile phone network before sending a text message, according to an Interfax news agency report by way of Reuters. As well as being fined, the unnamed student, was also slapped with a one-year suspended sentence. Russian officials said this was the first time a spammer had been prosecuted successfully. ®

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