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Spam Is More Than Meat!

May 31, 2007

Remember when Spam was something you ate? Language changes over time and now we’ve learned in this digital world that spam is more of a nuisance than anything else. It can come in analog fashion on your fax machine as well; however, I’m talking about the kind of spam that the likes of Robert Soloway create.

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Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. Get him for whatever you can but get him off the digital highways.

Between November of 2003 and May of 2007 Soloway “spammed“ tens of millions of e-mail messages to promote websites at which his company, Newport Internet Marketing, sold products and services, according to prosecutors.

Soloway routinely moved his website to different Internet addresses to dodge detection and began registering them through Chinese Internet service providers in 2006 in an apparent ploy to mask his involvement.

Spam messages sent by Soloway used misleading “header” information to dupe people into opening them, according to Sullivan.

Soloway is accused of using “botnets,” networks of computers, to disguise where e-mail originated and of forging return addresses of real people or businesses that wound up blamed for unwanted mailings. If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars.

And you thought spam was meat! :-)

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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