You know how people steal your email address and then send out spam under your email address as the bogus “reply to” address?
They caught one of the world’s Top 10 Spammers because doing this, the feds decided, was “identity theft”.
You can read about it on MSNBC
They claim that putting this guy away will help reduce spam noticably for everyone. I’ll have to wait to believe that.
A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
The Santa Barbara County, Calif., Department of Social Services said it was spending $1,000 a week to fight the spam it was receiving, and other businesses and individuals complained of having their reputations damaged when it appeared spam was originating from their computers.
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