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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Florida man who helped send millions of spam messages to people in order to help computer marketers collect email addresses and phone numbers was sentenced to two years of probation by a federal judge in Pittsburgh. Naveed Ahmed, of Tampa, pleaded guilty in August. Thursday's light sentence came as a surprise, as federal guidelines called for at least called for two years in prison. Federal prosecutors say Ahmed and two others earned $2,000 to $3,000 weekly by violating a law is designed to protect people from receiving spam emails or text messages. Ahmed is one of 12 people federally prosecuted for marketing their skills on Darkcode.com, a cybercriminal marketplace disabled by the FBI last summer. A total of 70 people in the U.S. and 19 other countries were targeted in that takedown.

Florida man gets probation in Pittsburgh spamming case