A bad day for spammers means a good day for everyone

Posted by multippt

One of the world’s top 10 spammers have be arrested a few days ago on Wednesday.

Robert Alan Soloway is about to face 35 charges related to suspected fraudulent Internet activities. Soloway, the owner of Newport Internet Marketing, was indicted by a federal grand jury on the 23rd of May, 2007, for 10 counts of mail fraud, 5 counts of aggravated identity theft, and 13 counts of money laundering.

Dubbed as the “Spam King”, Soloway is in no way one of your daily spammers, as he is responsible for circulating millions of spam messages in the form of Emails online. Soloway is also accused of managing false websites posing as legitimate “broadcast Email services” with “permission-based opt-in Email addresses”, which have largely deceived many businesses into spending their money for tools that turn out to be spam tools. Soloway has also been accused of creating more than 2000 proxy computers or “zoombies” (computers that are hijacked by hackers without the user’s knowledge) used to send spam Emails.

With the arrest of Soloway, spam can be expected to decline a little, and users with nearly flooded mailboxes filled with Email spam can breath a sign of relieve. However, spam is not yet eliminated, simply because it can’t be eliminated easily with other spammers around.