Commonwealth v. Jaynes

By Judge Thomas D. Horne

Defendants have been charged in multiple count indictments with felony violations of the Virginia statute governing the transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail (Spam). Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-152.3:1. The relevant statute, otherwise known as “TUBES,” provides, in relevant part, as follows:

A. Any person who:

1. Uses a computer or computer network with the intent to falsify or forge electronic mail transmission information or other routing information in any maimer in connection with the transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail through or into the computer…