Major spammer arrested

[Larwee]

A big source of spam has been arrested. He is called a "spam king" because of the volume of spamming he did.

Robert Alan Soloway has been arrested and indicted on multiple counts of money laundering, wire fraud, mail fraud, and identity theft by a federal grand jury.

If convicted on all charges he could be sentenced to 65 years in federal prison. However it is expected to be less than that.

Soloway is said to have constantly violated the CAN-SPAM Act, failed to pay multi-million dollar judgments to Microsoft and to an Oklahoma-based ISP who sued him for spamming, and ignored injunctions against his spamming activities.

Robert Allan Soloway is said to be one of the 10 top spammers in the world.

Here are some links to articles with more details:

"Top" Spammer Nabbed For Fraud, ID Theft, Man Described As 1 Of World's Top 10 Spammers Arrested, Could Face Decades In Prison - CBS News

Alleged 'Seattle Spammer' arrested | CNET News.com

deseretnews.com | Seattle court arraigns the 'Spam King'

[Linda Buquet]

Wow 65 years??? Some rapists don't even get that much.

My daughter told me it was all over the news and I'd seen people blogging about it but had not had time to read about it yet.

Thanks for posting.

[fitnfree]

Awesome -- glad they were tough on him! now they need to be that tough on those rapists and other thugs, too!