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Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-should-fix-it dept.

Mike writes "Yahoo is reporting that US prosecutors captured Robert Soloway, a prolific Internet marketer responsible so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King." Soloway was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. Soloway is accused of using botnets to disguise where e-mail originated and of forging return addresses of real people or businesses for his mass mailings. If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars."

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  1. give hima real punishment... by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..... make him delete all the spam emails he sent out, individually.

    1. Re:give hima real punishment... by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Funny

      While that might satisfy our need for revenge as individuals, as a society aren't we suppose to seek the rehabilitation of criminals such as Robert Soloway? If so, I doubt very much punishing him in such a manner would rehabilitate him. It would simply urge him not to get caught next time, although it is of course quite impossible for him to do it hence the silly moderation. Although I imagine many people are thinking "Yeah! We should do that! Really make him suffer!" I think we need more behaviour modification specialists (including psychiatrists) over the simple cry for vengence when we make laws against spamming. Otherwise we simply get laws that say a spammer should be put in jail for 65 years rather then laws which actually seek to rehabilitate the spammer.

  2. Thank Goodness by ReidMaynard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Todo List:
    [x] Eliminate SPAM From Internet
    [ ] Bring peace to Middle East
    [ ] Make $1,000,000,000

    That's one less thing for me to do now...

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    1. Re:Thank Goodness by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can help you with that last one. You see, my uncle died recently and he was really rich, but I'm having some trouble getting the money out of the country..............

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      How we know is more important than what we know.
  3. Now I'll buy penis enlargement pills... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    and send them to his jail mates.

    1. Re:Now I'll buy penis enlargement pills... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't know... Is that punishment too stiff?

  4. Re:Is 65 years excessive? by Gospodin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoever this Mr. Noone is, he really sounds like the victim here.

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    ...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
  5. Food code by xororand · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suggest that he should get a good bunch of artifical spam mails everyday while only one of it contains the code for the daily meals. Thus he would experience what it's like to get V1AG|)_A and 03M Software offers every day ;)