Spam, we all get it in our email and for most of us, it drives us crazy.

Tonight, it seems one Valley man is paying the price for sending out pornographic spam to computers worldwide.

Five years in the slammer, that's what a judge handed down to two men for their porn spam operation.

No we're not talking meat-like spam in a can.

Internet spam looks like this: "Drop 20 pounds", "Work from home", "Secret lover".

“Spam is very annoying and it is terrible,” Eve Jakob said.

Jakob said her computer is overloaded with junk messages, many pornographic.

“I have 2 sons and they're just as likely to open unwanted emails as I am,” she said. “It's extremely annoying.”

Annoying, yet profitable said computer expert Ken Colburn for the spammers sending those unsolicited emails.

“Well guess what all it takes is one percent of the millions of messages they're making money, people do buy those Viagra offers, they do buy mortgage rates,” Colbum said.

Two spammers who grossed over a million have been sentenced to five years behind bars, which is the first conviction under the 2003 "Can-spam" law.

James Schafer, who lives in Paradise Valley and his California business partner mailed out millions of hard-core porn offers over a four year period.

They used off shore accounts, so they'd be tough to track down.

Neither one had any comment.

“It's more than an annoyance it's unlawful, so I’m glad someone is brought to justice,” Jakob said.

So is it possible to eliminate spam?

Our expert said not entirely, but he did recommend some filtering tools.

Log on to DataDoctors.com and click on 'free help center', then scroll to 'spam tools' to get more information about eliminating spam.