Jeremy Jaynes is an American entrepreneur and business consultant. Jaynes is best known for some of his earliest online ventures in 2004, that involved the act of e-mail spamming, broadcasting junk e-mail from his home in North Carolina, United States. Jaynes and his business partner, his sister Jessica DeGroot, were the first people in the world to be charged with "felony spam", i.e., sending spam without allegation of any accompanying illegal conduct such as theft, fraud, trespass, defamation, or obscenity.