$4.1m scammer jailed

A British cyber conman nicknamed "weaselboy" was convicted yesterday of running a 1.6 million ($4.1 million) email scam from a bedroom in his father's house.

Peter Francis-Macrae, 23, was found guilty over charges related to selling domain names when he had no right, threats to kill, destroy property and blackmail.

Peterborough Crown Court heard that when his customers complained about being sold fake domain names, he threatened to destroy their internet systems by sending millions of spam emails and firebomb offices.