Posted on 05/30/2007 6:00:34 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US prosecutors said they captured on Wednesday a nefarious Internet marketer responsible so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King." ADVERTISEMENT
Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud.
"Spam is a scourge of the Internet, and Robert Soloway is one of its most prolific practitioners," said US Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jeffrey Sullivan.
"Our investigators dubbed him the 'Spam King' because he is responsible for millions of spam emails."
Between November of 2003 and May of 2007 Soloway "spammed" tens of millions of e-mail messages to promote websites at which his company, Newport Internet Marketing, sold products and services, according to prosecutors.
Soloway routinely moved his website to different Internet addresses to dodge detection and began registering them through Chinese Internet service providers in 2006 in an apparent ploy to mask his involvement.
Spam messages sent by Soloway used misleading "header" information to dupe people into opening them, according to Sullivan.
Soloway is accused of using "botnets," networks of computers, to disguise where e-mail originated and of forging return addresses of real people or businesses that wound up blamed for unwanted mailings.
If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars.
Prosecutors want to seize approximately 773,000 dollars they say Soloway made from his spamming-related activities.
Hanging is way too good for him. I know some country roads I’d love to take him skiing down.
Now if they could jest get those Nigerians off my back.
thank God! Now it may safe to back in the water er, uh, email again
Bet he gets off with way less than that.
Potential roommates bidding for the company of Mr. Soloway.
Thanks! Bookmarked. Will try.
Whose b**ch is he going to be ?
Instead of the "Spam King" he should be called the "Scum King'.
Another geeky genius bordering on insanity.
Leni
Leni
Televised vivisection for this scum.
I’d love to take him fishing - we can always use some fresh chum.
Whoever it is, I hope they're using v1@gr@ and c-i-a-l-i-s, not to mention sheepshead ovulating flatulence.
Actually, those emails are of particular interest to the Secret Service.
A former company I worked for received them all the time because we were a 7 figure company (although considered quite small in employee size). Finally, they stopped arriving in the mail.
But then, I'm a moderate
All of his pranksterism with the spammers and scammers is hillarious stuff. I do warn you, be careful not to drink anything while reading some of his replies unless you want to buy a new monitor.
One down - alot more to go. This is good news. It’s amazing how much spam we get. I wonder how they get your email address - not sure how “spambots” work — not real “techy” on such things......
I wonder if he has anything to do with Trust Savings. I get 4-5 spam emails a day from them. I’ve requested to “be removed” to no avail. What kind of idiot would do business with a bank that is annoying and misleading!
If he is convicted , I am sure it would be challenged as unconstitutional in the SCOTUS. 65 yrs for spam looks like cruel and unusual punishment to me.
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