Spammers Beware

man faces 26 year sentence for spamming

Well a person named Robert Soloway, 28 has been pleaded guilty to electronic mail fraud, "snail" mail fraud, and not filing a tax return in 2005— the year he made at least $300,000 through his junk e-mail business.


CAse history:


He was accused of using Chinese ISPs to send out spam e-mail using a database of 157.8 million e-mail addresses, as well as operating a botnet used for spamming.
He faced significant jail time and the prospect of having to forfeit all of his spam-related assets to the federal government.
He was sued by Microsoft in December 2003, but argued that his subcontractors were actually responsible for the spam that used forged hotmail.com reply-to addresses.

He's looking at a maximum of 26 years in prison as well as $625,000 fine.


Have a look at whole story here

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004283998_spamking15m.html