Internet 'Spam King' arrested [Facing 65 years, 250K ]

Yahoo News ^ | 5/30/2007 | AFP

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

I get 4-5 spam emails a day from them. I’ve requested to “be removed” to no avail

Requesting to be removed is the surest way of getting more spam. Its how spammers find out which email accounts are real and active.

[hadaclueonce]

Thank you for the posting, made my day. The devil in hell awaits his new servant.

[plinker's2sense]

Good riddance, I hate spam.

[abigailsmybaby]

And the British lottery.

[null and void]

Facing 65 years, 250K?

That’s all???

[doc1019]

LOL! Yea, that one also.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Occasionally the legal system gets one right.

Occasionally.

[SuziQ]

Since SirKit installed SpamBayes on my computer, I hardly have any problems with spam anymore. They are simply dumped directly to the Junk folder in my Inbox. It’s freeware, available for download, and he says it’s the best he’s found for the purpose.

[Eye of Unk]

I think the government should reduce or wave off sentencing in return he goes to work using his skills aginst foreign enemies.

[ShadowAce]

[DesScorp]

If he doesn’t do hard time, then I’m all for a hangin’ party.

[doug from upland]

Confine this SOB for the rest of his life. Let him have email, but the only thing the filter will allow is spam.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Does anyone get "system failure mail returned" "Daemon returned mail" and so on?

Sometimes I get hundreds a day and for the life of me I can't figure out why someone would take the time to do this. Some have attachments that are .gif or .txt Is this a new way to spread virus's

[beef]

Chop off his thumbs.

[Tribune7]

And that have taken advantage of those special enhancement offers.

[ShadowAce]

Sounds like the spammers are using your e-mail address to send out spam—and you get all the failures.

[org.whodat]

Something a little slower would be great, I would say burying in an ant hill should do the trick

[org.whodat]

Sounds like the spammers are using your e-mail address to send out spam—and you get all the failures

Maybe true, but he could also have a worm in his system, actually sending the email.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Thanks...I know what you are saying but they are addressed directly to my site. alias[at]mysite.com Since I get all the default email, I get tons of it. I have Googled it and they even use my site as an example. Most of it appears to come from the Philipines.

[PAR35]

f convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars.

Of course, the actual sentence will be measured in months, not years, but even the maximum penalties are too light.