A Seattle man described as one of the world's "top ten spammers" was arrested Wednesday and the cops say you could see a decrease in your junk mail with him behind bars.
Robert Alan Soloway was arrested after a 35 count federal indictment charged him with with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Looks like Robert has been a very busy boy.
"Prosecutors say Soloway used computers infected with malicious code to send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called "zombies" because owners typically have no idea their machines have been infected.He continued his activities even after Microsoft won a $7 million civil judgment against him in 2005 and the operator of a small Internet service provider in Oklahoma won a $10 million judgment, prosecutors said."
Spammers cause huge problems on the internet with their reckless business practices and worldwide the people like Robert cost businesses and their customers an estimated 20 billion dollars a year in lost productivity dealing with spam.
Now if they can just arrest the other nine.................................;-)
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