Spammer Gets Nine Year Prison Term

One of the world's top spammers, Jeremy Jaynes, was recently sentenced to nine years in prison under Virginia's anti-spam law for sending millions of e-mail messages to America Online customers. Jaynes, 30, lived in Virginia and was found guilty last year of using false Internet addresses and aliases to send as many as 10 million illegal e-mails a day, prosecutors said.

New Banking Rules Require Customer Notification of Data Theft

On March 24th, the US Federal Reserves Board issued rules that require banks and other financial institutions to inform customers when they have a security breach and their information has been stolen. In the rules, sensitive customer information includes a customer's name, address, or telephone number, in conjunction with a social security number, driver's license number, account number, credit or debit card numbers, or other information that would allow access to a customer's account. Click here for more information.

Did you know?

1. One of our customers, Bushwacker Inc., was recently featured in the Oregonian (April 11th). Bushwacker has built its reputation as the leading manufacturer of fender flares and truck accessories on 35 plus years of design and innovation. Congratulations to everyone at Bushwacker! Check out the article. Check out their web site.

2. Need a Boat? Another Sterling client, The Volunteers of America, will be holding their 7th Annual Boat Auction on April 29-May 1. Over 70 boats will be auctioned off and the proceeds go to a fabulous cause! Click here for more information.

3. Big Advertisement! Sterling ran a full page ad in the Portland Business Journal last week, click here to see it.

4. The Sterling client base is a chatty bunch. Sterling processes more than 4 million email messages per week and our new Sterling Voice service processed over 400,000 calls in the first 3 months of this year! Wow, that's a lot of conversations.