March 09, 2006 Work-at-home Mom Pleads Guilty To Massive Porn Spamming By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of Page 1 of 2 A work-at-home mom pleaded guilty this week in federal court to sending millions of spams hyping Internet porn sites, prosecutors said. Jennifer Clason, 33, of Raymond, N.H., was part of a gang that sent mass quantities of messages containing pornographic images, said officials from the Department of Justice. She admitted conspiring with two others, Jeffrey Kilbride, 39, of Venice, Calif., and James Schaffer, 39, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., in sending the messages, which advertised various Internet porn sites. Clason, who pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act and to one count of criminal conspiracy, will forfeit her ill-gotten gains under the agreement she struck with authorities. She also faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. Two other members of the gang, Andrew Ellifson, 31, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Kirk Rogers, 43, of Manhattan Beach, Calif., have already pleaded guilty to charges under the CAN-SPAM Act. Clason now runs a for work-at-home moms, MommyJobs.com, which was not part of the investigation. According to anti-spam advocate , MommyJobs.com -- which bills itself as "a support site for other work at home mothers and others who wish to quit their jobs to be home" -- contains no pitches to join Clason's affiliate program for porn spammers (PhatBucks.com), nor to visit her porn "thumbnail" site (Galleriesblog.com) or her porn content site (Contentshopper.com). While MommyJobs.com lacks direct porn connections, it does advertise get-rich-quick schemes on its forums, including "auto-surf" sites. Recently, the , and charged its owner with operating a Ponzi scheme to dupe investors. Clason came clean on the MommyJobs.com message forum Thursday in a to her site visitors, but claimed she was victimized by a man who convinced her that spamming wasn't illegal. Recently, she said, she left the spamming business. "Apparently this guy that I had trusted for 5 years had lied to me," she wrote. "Not only was his operation illegal, but he was also doing other shady stuff that I had no knowledge of like money laundering!!" E-mail This Story Print This Story Page 2: next page Page 1 | 2 Get the latest Messaging news, product info, and trends every week.			Spyware And Adware Continue To Plague PCs FTC Smacks Spammer With $900K Fine Researchers Warn Of Coming Tax Scams Microsoft Vows To Keep Pressure On Phishers Americans Want Banks To Spy On Their Accounts Not Everyone Is Happy With Windows Live OneCare     Messaging Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Messaging Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed Editorial and vendor perspectives The Six Flavors Of Windows Vista Microsoft plans to release a full six-pack of Vista versions, one for every taste. Which Vista will be right for you? Hope is Not Enough When It Comes To Compliance Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam Wikis In The Workplace Review: Google Desktop 3 Vendors are now talking about how collaboration can be improved by integrating video with messaging applications. They're even talking about adding live TV to mobile phones. How far do you go before it becomes a bandwidth and business productivity drain? Video is a great idea     13% Video is fine but there needs to be size limits     25% It's never used for anything really productive     38% I draw the line at live TV     25% In search of messaging products? Check out our brand new Product Finder for a directory of groupware and collaboration tools, security products, archiving solutions, and more.