Gene

Excuse me if this was posted elsewhere (let me know if it was please)...

'Spam King' gets nearly 4 years in prison
Judge likens sending fraudulent e-mails to Internet pollution

By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I REPORTER

U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman ended the reign of the so-called Spam King, who earned his title by sending out millions of unwanted e-mails, by sentencing the Seattle man to nearly four years in prison Tuesday.

Robert Soloway is the second person in the country to be convicted under the Can-Spam Act for flooding the virtual world with fraudulent e-mail messages. His sentence of 47 months is less than half of what prosecutors wanted... (read more)

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RogueWriter

Guys like that make me want to see caning introduced as a punishment in this country. He deserves a daily dose of body cavity searches and Yoko Ono music.

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bizcorp

It never ceases to amaze me why people would want to send out annoying messages to other internet users. Its just 'polluting the internet' in my opinion.

Reece

http://directmag.com/disciplines/email/spammer_soloway/

A quote:

Originally Posted by Direct Mag

From the bank records, investment and account statements, and various financial documents described and referenced within this affidavit, I have determined that Soloway and [his company] NIM’s fraud and spamming scheme … generated income in excess of $1 million from 2003 to 2006,” said the affidavit by Special Agent Silvia Reyes of the IRS. The affidavit then lists 16 bank accounts with total deposits of more than $1.6 million from 2003 to 2006.

Good money in spamming until you get caught.

Originally Posted by bizcorp

It never ceases to amaze me why people would want to send out annoying messages to other internet users. Its just 'polluting the internet' in my opinion.

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tekz999

I found a source where many spam kings should be banned.
http://www.domainspammers.com

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arnie

whilst spamming is annoying why don't they try and catch the hackers too, they are often worse. spammers who are scammers too are the worst.

my other gripe is whilst i dont like spammers, the government let the postman push loads of junkmail through your letterbox every day which is killing rainforsts and woodland and filling up landfill sites yet they are allowed to do it. in fact the post office (royal mail) works in conjunction with the junk mail people here and turns a massive profit. the whole system is screwed. priorities!

domainer50

Glad he was caught and put away. Maybe my inbox will be free now But honestly, why? Its so annoying, and many programs block those emails now anyway, so why bother?

RickM

Originally Posted by arnie

whilst spamming is annoying why don't they try and catch the hackers too, they are often worse. spammers who are scammers too are the worst. my other gripe is whilst i dont like spammers, the government let the postman push loads of junkmail through your letterbox every day which is killing rainforsts and woodland and filling up landfill sites yet they are allowed to do it. in fact the post office (royal mail) works in conjunction with the junk mail people here and turns a massive profit. the whole system is screwed. priorities!

Yeah thats annoys me too. We get about 4 -8 spam letters a day...really annoying!

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jimnewberge

anyone get those transfer and renew your domains with us for only 39.95 a year letters?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/209600652

killed himself

rjmlar

"Spammer" and "prison" -- two keywords that give me that warm and fuzzy feeling.

Originally Posted by jimnewberge

anyone get those transfer and renew your domains with us for only 39.95 a year letters?

You must mean Liberty Names of America aka Domain Name USA aka Domain Registry of America aka Internet Listing Service Corp. Sadly, plenty of folks fall for these scams. Over the years I've gotten a few. In all fairness... their prices have gone down, though.

The Yahoo article is sadder.

coreyg

thanx for that Gene good to see that there are consequences for their actions.

Cheers
Corey

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copper

Another person (Edward Davidson) has nick name "Spam King".
And reported dead escaping from prison.
And here is wikipedia page

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bobbie

Originally Posted by arnie

the government let the postman push loads of junkmail through your letterbox every day which is killing rainforsts and woodland and filling up landfill sites yet they are allowed to do it.

I guess the biggest difference is that you can't ban snail mail unless it makes an illegal offer or threat and the snail mailers send it at their own expense instead of everybody else's expense like the Internet spammers.