Spammer faces 26 Years of Imprisonment
On Friday, Robert Alan Soloway, the man who is aptly known as the “spam king” pleaded guilty in Seattle US District Court. Federal investigators found that Soloway has sent out millions of unsolicited commercial emails with forged headers since 2003 using a botnet of zombied computers from his Newport Internet Marketing Corp.
For this, he was arrested in May 2007 and was charged with 40 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, email fraud, aggravated identity theft and failing to file taxes.
On Friday, Soloway pleaded guilty to the three charges. However, rest of the charges including e-mail fraud and aggravated identity theft were dropped.
28-year-old Soloway also confessed that he earned $309,000 from the spamming operation in the year 2005. Also, he has agreed to go through polygraph test i.e. a lie detector test.
Soloway is in jail since he has been arrested last summer. Further, he will be facing 26 years of imprisonment.
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