27-year-old Adam Vitale of New York was sentenced to 30 month's in Federal Prison on Tuesday for his part in spamming AOL users. In addition he was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $180,000.

He was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. Vitale and his partner in crime, Todd Moeller, were busted after they offered their spam services to a government informant, according to an indictment filed in May 2006.

The two sent around 250,000 spam messages to more than 1.2 million e-mail addresses belonging to AOL subscribers, the indictment read.

The spam messages contained false "headers," or the set of information contained in an e-mail that identifies where it has been sent from. The information can be faked. The two also routed the spam through open proxies, or other computer servers, in order to make it more difficult to trace.

Atleast a dozen Internet Service Providers have been collaborating for a few years now on new technology to better prevent spam but there is some much separation with companies failing to agree on any specific solution.

Moeller pleaded guilt to two counts of e-mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit e-mail fraud. He was sentenced in December 2007 to 27 months, court records show. He also was ordered to forfeit $183,000 in profit gained from spamming.

Adam Vitale is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York until he is transferred to U.S. Marhsals custody for transportation to his designated prison.