Saint_Michael
May 31 2007, 03:36 AM
| | Federal court handed out a 35 count indictment to 27 year old Robert Alan Soloway, who is consider one of the top 10 spammers the world as seen. Previously Soloway got sued by Microsoft for $7 Million dollars and then a ISP in Oklahoma nailed him yet again for $10 million. The way Soloway did this was through a network of zombie computers to sent out Millions of spam for people to advertise through him. Although the prison time is yet uncertain he is expected to spend decades for this little venture of his.
What I find amusing though is that they say that people well see a decrease in spam, because of this guy going to jail $10 dollars someone will just take his place and either do the same or do it better.
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Plenoptic
May 31 2007, 03:53 AM
That is really funny. Goes to show you what spamming can get you into so you better not do it here  The warnings given by admins keep you from going to jail.  (or not) Doesn't matter how many spammers they throw in jail, they probably make so much money from doing it somehow that they'll get out eventually or more people will take their place like SM said. I can imagine what it's like for him in jail. ""Hey what are you in for?... A Robbery. You? ... Spamming. " There will always be spammers sadly but oh well, at least they are trying to do something about it. They probably don't have a standard on what to send people to jail for after spamming the world with emails.
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Carson
May 31 2007, 04:16 AM
I dont think anyone should go to Jail for spamming. It may be a crime, but, it's not exactly a serious offense. You'd think the police would have something better to do than catch someone who spams people. It sounds silly to me. I'm not for spamming at all. I don't know why people would waste their time on something so stupid. I think that a very large fine would do, but not jail time.
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Jarlaxe
May 31 2007, 04:23 AM
lol, nice one! i hate it when my email gets spammed by somebody i dont even know. Good to get a crackdown going on them.
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wenster
May 31 2007, 04:31 AM
Man the guy owns a Mercedes convertible and they're trying to make him fork over about $800 thousand. THat's alot of money. I could do alot with that. lol. I guess he didn't protect himself very well through spammy ways of avoiding detection. I'm sure someone will take his place and just like St. Michael said $10 someone might do a better job than him.
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velma
May 31 2007, 04:42 AM
Hi Carson, It is a sort of serious issue for spamming in forums is alright as they can be caught and thrown out thus saving a lot of pain but in many cases the spammers take free hosting and send a lot of spam resulting in lag and depletion of sources of the Webhoster. Sometimes the spammer hacks into other people's accounts and uses it to send a lot of spam causing a problem to the account holder as it is his name that pops up not the hackers. It is a crime for sometimes these people can steal money making duplicate sites like ebay, paypal and such. It is good that the spammer went to jail as he deserves it and all the others too should join them for it is an inconvenience for hosters. But the problem is that the number of spammers are so great that if one leaves the next one appears.
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t3jem
May 31 2007, 05:04 AM
I'm glad he's going to jail. I say 25 years. If he hasn't learned his lesson after the first two times maybe he will after 25 years. Spam is as good a harrasment. Had he been following you around all the time asking "Would you like to buy (insert product" then you would sue him too. I'm glad he got caught. I hope they catch more and can deter more people from spamming.
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adriantc
May 31 2007, 05:26 AM
I salute the courts decision although I don't know if it will have any influence on the amount of spam we receive every day. I'he heard that over 80% of all emails are spam, unwanted emails.I don't think that stoping one spammer can reduce thu number of spam. If I don't clean my inbox for a week I have around 1000 spam emails. I made the imprudence of pasting the support email on my website and now I receive lots and lots of spam. Every 2 months I receive a waring email saying my inbox is full of spam. As more and more people get access to internet spam will also grow. Still this was an important decision because it was the first. Now other courts can do the same and maybe, just maybe, spam can be at least controled if not reduced.
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velma
May 31 2007, 07:01 AM
Sometimes out of 3 pages of mails I delete 2 pages of spam so you can imagine how frustrated I get when I see a huge number of mails but then realize that it is mostly spam. I am happy that atleast some spammer is going to jail and there will be a few more following him again
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master_bacarra
May 31 2007, 07:27 AM
lol, i thought this was about SM going to jail  hahaha. and the title implies "great spammer". i find it a bit weird though. i mean sending a spammer to jail? that's something new. but then again, i've had annoying spam on my gmail recently. and it's directed on the inbox and not on the spam box. i don't know why i keep getting that though. saying that i am a beneficiary of someone i don't even know
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FolkRockFan
Jun 3 2007, 12:50 AM
I doubt that he'll be given access to computers in prison. And I would not be surprised if a condition of his release is that he cannot own or use computers for x amount of time (if not the rest of his life - just depends, I suppose). But at the same time: I also would not be surprised if, once this guy is released, he goes right back to doing what he was doing. All that money he was making just for working on a computer has got to be a very powerful lure to a guy like him.
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Saint_Michael
Jun 2 2007, 10:41 PM
Well if you happen to breeze through the article it mentions that he sent millions possibly billions of spam daily, which is no wonder he needed so many zombie's order to do it. Of course the other issue is that there is a legal way to spam and a illegal way to spam and this guy did it the illegal way which i mentioned in my previous post. It was mention that 75 billion spam get sent a day, now that is one huge server overload if most of these people did it the right way, but of course when your stealing money you don't want to be caught. @Matt2 post: yeah I saw a site similar to make the Nigerian scammers look stupid, this one story I read a guy use hollywood actors names as business partners and what not it was pretty hysterical, he even threw in a secretary as well for communication when "the boss" wasn't around and stuff. What gets me though is that these people still succeed in stealing money, but from tv reports I saw about this they attack mostly older people who believe that this is total awesome and just a bogus scam.
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Forbez
Jun 2 2007, 07:26 PM
1 Spammer down, millions left to go. I wonder just how much in total spam he produced by himself? Must be quite a lot. He shouldn't get put in jail for to long, just ban him from PCs. Then no more spam from him...
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YoYoBoY
Jun 2 2007, 01:25 PM
This could quite well result in a new age of computer "laws", where we see many more people being arrested for spamming or hacking and such. However, I wonder... how did they manage to catch him? It seems like it has become very hard to track a person down on the Internet without them telling you their personal information.
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Matt2
Jun 2 2007, 07:21 AM
All I can say is shame on the spammer. It just shows everyone that eventually you will be caught. I have noticed an influx of the "Oh my gosh I just found out I have 1 million dollars, but I need you to send me 100 dollars for the claim to go through" in my normal mail inbox. I keep them, I think they're funny. There's a website out there that drags the Nigerian scammers along and go along with their plans. It's really funny to read the stories of how stupid the Nigerian Scammers are.
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