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Russia fines text hack spammer
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Fri 25 Jun 2004 //
16:07 UTC
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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