Mar 10 2008
Spamming causes man to go to jail for 26 years
The eight-largest spammer in the world according to Spamhouse, Robert Soloway, was sentenced to jail time of 26 years and a fine of $625,000 fine for identity theft, spamming, electronic and snail mail fraud, and not filing a tax return in 2005 after reports that he made more than $300,000 from his activities among others.
He is not new to this kind of charges since Microsoft has already sued him in 2003 for hotmail mail fiasco and in 2005 by Oklahoma ISP by arguing that he has violated federal CAN-SPAM laws.
In an interview by The Seattle Times to Soloway’s lawyer, he said, “there’s not much left to seize, saying that he’s essentially broke.”