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Seattle spammer gets nearly 4 years in prison

nwsource.com
Jul 22, 2008
        
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Robert Alan Soloway was arrested last summer. Prosecutors said he made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling so-called "broadcast e-mail services" and used networks of compromised computers to send out millions upon millions of junk e-mails. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman issued the sentence Tuesday. She will hold a hearing later to determine how much restitution Soloway... [read full story]                    

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A lovely prison term for the ‘spam king’

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Top spammer sentenced to nearly four years

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A lovely prison term for the ‘spam king’

thenewstribune.com
Jul 25, 2008
        

Robert Soloway – aka “the king of spam” – deserves a reserved seat deep in Dante’s Inferno. But four years in a federal prison will do for now. Actually, it’s surprising and sweet that any spammer-royale has gotten caught,...

                   

Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years

chineselinuxuniversity.net
Jul 25, 2008
        

The "spam king" was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals. Robert Soloway, the man known as the spam king for the massive volume of spam he...

                   
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One 'Spam King' Faces 4 Years In Prison, One Escapes

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Jul 25, 2008
        

Source: crn.com By: Stefanie Hoffman, Seattle man Tuesday was sentenced to 47 months in prison for spamming while a Colorado man is on the run after escaping from a federal prison camp. Robert Alan Soloway, also known as the...

                   

Spam king to spend almost four years behind bars

heise.de
Jul 25, 2008
        

Dubbed the "Spam King", Robert Alan Soloway was sentenced to three years and eleven months of imprisonment for his violation of US anti-spam legislation – the CAN SPAM Act – by a court in Seattle. Judge Marsha Pechman took a...

Will One Spam King's Conviction and Another's Escape Mean Less E-Trash on the Internet?

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Jul 24, 2008
        

If you want to get rid of spam, perhaps we should look at who is paying for their services? Robert Soloway, dubbed the "Spam King", was sentenced in Washington yesterday, according to an article in the Seattle Intelligencer....

Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years

linuxtoday.com
Jul 24, 2008
        

PCWorld: "The "spam king" was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals. Robert Soloway, the man known as the spam king for the massive volume of...

                   

One Spammer Jailed, Another Walks

washingtonpost.com
Jul 24, 2008
        

Spam king Robert Soloway was sentenced this week to 47 months in prison for sending more than 90 million junk e-mail messages over a three month period. Meanwhile, federal authorities are searching for a spammer who walked away...

                   

Spam King Soloway sent down for 47 months

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Jul 24, 2008
        

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Thursday 24 July 2008 at 20:28:00 Prolific spammer 'embarrassed and ashamed' A man described by Microsoft as one of the top 10 spammers in the world has been sentenced to nearly four...

New Post at [GAS]- Robert Soloway Sentenced

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Jul 24, 2008
        

I have a post up at Geeks Are Sexy about Robert Soloway, aka the Spam King, being sentenced to four years of PMITA Prison. I wrote about his conviction last year in this post here. I included some statistics on current spam...

                   

Spam King Soloway sent down for 47 months

pcauthority.com.au
Jul 24, 2008
        

A man described by Microsoft as one of the top ten spammers in the world has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail. A man described by Microsoft as one of the top ten spammers in the world has been sentenced to nearly...

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