NEWARK — A Florida man who hijacked a company’s Web site and used other methods to unlawfully inundate countless email inboxes with spam was sentenced Tuesday to 48 months in prison, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman said.
Timothy Livingston, a 31-year-old Boca Raton resident, racked up $1.3 million in illegal profits via his company, A Whole Lot of Nothing LLC.
Starting in 2011, Livingston operated the business, which specialized in sending out mass emails advertising lawful companies, including insurance firms.
But Livingston’s clientele also included illegal businesses, including online pharmacies that sold drugs without prescriptions.
In 2012, Livingston hired Tomasz Chmielarz, 34, of Rutherford, to write programs that would hide the origin of spam emails and bypass spam filters. Livingston also hacked into one company’s Web site and another firm’s emails and used them to send spam that appeared to originate with the companies.
Livingston had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with computers and access devices, conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with electronic mail and aggravated identity theft.
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