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Top Spammer Indicted By Grand Jury

by Terrence O'Brien on May 31, 2007 at 11:43 AM

Spammer Indicted
Can you feel it? That tingling sensation that tells you the world just became a slightly better place to live? Your inbox should feel a little lighter now that Robert Alan Soloway, one of the "top 10 spammers in the world," has been arrested.

A grand jury indicted Soloway on 35 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Soloway pleaded not guilty, but after having lost two multi-million dollar suits to Microsoft and a small ISP in Oklahoma, it's hard to believe he'll get off this time.

Soloway is accused of using malicious code to infect unknowing "zombie" PC's and using them to send out millions of e-mails each.

From AOL Money and Finance

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