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http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2121940,00.html

San Francisco - US prosecutors said they captured on Wednesday a nefarious internet marketer responsible for so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King".

Robert Soloway, 27, 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.

"Spam is a scourge of the internet, and Robert Soloway is one of its most prolific practitioners," said US Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jeffrey Sullivan.
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Spam is a scourge of the internet
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I think many judges share that opinion... I pity the spammer which hits a judge which just had to rid his inbox of spam :D
 
Haha, I hope they lock this young chump up with some very dodgey characters.

Give him the max 65 years and take back everything he has gained from this practice.
No mercy at all.

He is an Internet parasite.
 
Sneeky said:
Haha, I hope they lock this young chump up with some very dodgey characters.

Give him the max 65 years and take back everything he has gained from this practice.
No mercy at all.

He is an Internet parasite.
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Remind me never to get on your bad side :D

But I agree with you. I swear, if I get anymore lesbo pr0n in my e-mail I'm going to scream!

And I'll have you know all my appendages are perfectly fine, thank you ;)
 
Thanks to Gmail spam doesn't even really bother me anymore, it picks up everything and every now and then I just scan through the spam mailbox and delete it all.
 
Yeah Syndyre, Gmail = best e-mail service I ever had. I won't ever have another, unless by some sick twist of fate Gmail becomes a paid-for service or Google dies... :X
 
Lycanthrope said:
Yeah Syndyre, Gmail = best e-mail service I ever had. I won't ever have another, unless by some sick twist of fate Gmail becomes a paid-for service or Google dies... :X
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I think I might even pay for it. :D Its probably the only place I actually click on ads occasionally so I'm sure they get a fair amount of revenue from it.
 
Syndyre said:
Thanks to Gmail spam doesn't even really bother me anymore, it picks up everything and every now and then I just scan through the spam mailbox and delete it all.
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I dont really care about whether you see the spam. The fact is, its out there, and the mail servers have to proccess it.

1) There's the Bandwidth involved in transmitting the SPAM.
2) There's the CPU Time and Disk space used in processing and storing the SPAM.
3) There's the CPU Time and Memory required to "detect" the spam.
4) There's the man power required to keep developing new methods for detecting the spam.

And now they're using other peoples CPU time and bandwidth to do this with Trojans and Botnets.

Its way beyond an annoyance, it has become a security problem.
 
daffy said:
I dont really care about whether you see the spam. The fact is, its out there, and the mail servers have to proccess it.

1) There's the Bandwidth involved in transmitting the SPAM.
2) There's the CPU Time and Disk space used in processing and storing the SPAM.
3) There's the CPU Time and Memory required to "detect" the spam.
4) There's the man power required to keep developing new methods for detecting the spam.

And now they're using other peoples CPU time and bandwidth to do this with Trojans and Botnets.

Its way beyond an annoyance, it has become a security problem.
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I agree 100%, fact is if people weren't stupid enough to respond to spam nobody would bother sending it out, that's the real problem.
 
Syndyre said:
I think I might even pay for it. :D Its probably the only place I actually click on ads occasionally so I'm sure they get a fair amount of revenue from it.
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Yeah... Crap... You're right. I would happily fork out money for them... I can't imagine living without my Google Calendar that sends me sms notifications before the date, or my little iGoogle homepage thingie... Or even Google Earth... Google really is an amazing service, much better than any other.

And yeah, I agree with you too daffy... It's a mega waste of people's patience, bandwidth, power and ... It's just plain inconsiderate.

I'd like to see these people go to prison for a long while XD Meet ol' Billy Bob and Billy Jean (Billy Bob's split persona XD)
 
Lycanthrope said:
Remind me never to get on your bad side :D

But I agree with you. I swear, if I get anymore lesbo pr0n in my e-mail I'm going to scream!

And I'll have you know all my appendages are perfectly fine, thank you ;)
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I swear if I ever stop getting lesbo pr0n in my e-mail I'll scream!!!!!
 
And dont forget when legitimate mail gets blocked instead of spam and how much time one spends on having to change emails every now and then. They should send that eedjut to a zimbabwean prison, let him rot there. Now they must just tackle the other spammers and rid them from this world.
 
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