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Yuki Shiina was arrested after allegedly sending 9 spam messages with forged sender information on November 13, 2007. The suspect, according to the investigations, bought 600,000 e-mail addresses for 100,000 yen and sent spam messages from his home PC.

He earned 2 million yen (more than 18,000 US dollars) from advertisers and sent around 2.2 million messages. The Internet service provider tipped last September to the police that they recorded that he was sending a massive amount of e-mails.

In Japan, a law was passed in 2002, and subsequently amended in 2007 where it prohibits sending spam messages with false or forged sender identification.

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