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Spam King Robert Soloway Arrested for Sending Billions of Illegal Messages a Day

 

On May 30, 2007 Robert Alan Soloway, voted one of the ten biggest spam artists in the world, was arrested in Seattle, a week after being indicted by a grand jury in Washington, and charged with fraud, money laundering, identity theft, and breaking Federal anti-spam legislation. Soloway has been a colossal Internet pest for years, sending giant amounts of spam, filling mailboxes and mail servers to overflowing with unsolicited and unwanted junk email. Criminally, he fraudulently marketed spam services as legitimate 'opt-in' services, fooling innocent users and then offering no customer support or refunds. Soloway used hijacked computers and open proxies,and therefore repeatedly violated the Computer Abuse and Fraud Act of 1984 and the CAN-SPAM law of 2003.

 

'Spam king' Soloway denied bail

 

So-called spam king Robert Soloway has had bail refused by a court in Seattle.

 

US magistrate Judge James P. Donohue turned down Soloway's appeal for bail because he has few ties to the country as most of his family live in Sweden. He also said that, because spamming could be organised from any country Soloway would have to stay in prison until his hearing on 6 August.

 

"These are allegations of cyber-crimes that have no geographical borders," Judge Donohue said, according to Associated Press. "It is just as easy to continue these actions in Sweden as it is in the US."

 

Another factor against Soloway was his refusal to abide by earlier court judgements. Microsoft and others have won cases against him and been awarded $17m in damages, which has yet to be paid.

 

Soloway was arrested on 30 May on 35 charges including mail fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering are punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

 

Say, do US Jails have WiFi ?