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July 23, 2008 Leave a Comment
In July 2007 Robert Soloway was arrested for sending out massive spam campaigns. Today, the spammer gets a 47-month sentence in prison and a $700,004 in restitution for the profits he made from his spam operation according to an article in Komonews. ”I take full responsibility for this. I sent out a lot of spam,” Soloway said in court.
May 14, 2008 Leave a Comment
Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines face a $230 million anti-spam judgment. The duo were found responsible for sending out phishing scams designed to harvest MySpace login credentials, prior to bombarding members with messages punting gambling and smut websites. As many as 730.000 spam messages, directing to gambling and smut websites, were sent to MySpace members since late 2006.
