February 29, 2004
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Luring kids to porn websites brings prison term
HOLLYWOOD
John Zuccarini has learned the high price of misspelling Disneyland.
The Internet ''mouse-trapper,'' who registered websites like www.dinseyland.com and www.teltubbies.com and redirected unsuspecting children and others to porn, was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in federal prison.
Zuccarini, 53, registered more than 3,000 Internet sites that were close misspellings of A-list sites for celebrities and retailers. Bob the Builder, Kevin Spacey, Victoria's Secret and Betty Crocker all were targets.
There were 16 different registered variants of the legitimate site www.britneyspears.com.
Zuccarini took in as much as $1 million a year. Porn advertisers paid Zuccarini every time a customer clicked through to their site.
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