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I guess I find it hard to believe. 65 years is justice? Murderers and rapists sometimes get less than 10 years. This seems like a ridiculous maximum sentence to me. Gordo http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530205449.9ue7id2d&show_article=1 US prosecutors said they captured on Wednesday a nefarious Internet marketer responsible so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King."
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.
"Spam is a scourge of the Internet, and Robert Soloway is one of its most prolific practitioners," said US Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jeffrey Sullivan.
"Our investigators dubbed him the 'Spam King' because he is responsible for millions of spam emails."
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.
Prosecutors want to seize approximately 773,000 dollars they say Soloway made from his spamming-related activities.
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Gordo,
65 years seems excessive but they haven't sentenced him yet. The maximum sentencing requirement would cover all presently conceivable crimes in this area. It is hard to imagine a spam so heinous that it would demand a 65 year sentence.
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The problem is the multiplicity of the crimes. While he could receive a maximum term of 65 years, the judge could also sentence him to multiple concurrent sentences and then he would get out much sooner. However, I much prefer the idea of seizing the $773,000 in profits and fining him $250,000 -- provided, however, he would have to earn the $250,000 doing something other than spamming!
It would be interesting to see whether, after he is sentenced, some of the businesses that were adversely affected by his use of their email addresses went after him in a civil suit.
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I'm a little computer illiterate. How does spamming harm anyone besides annoying them like junk mail or telemarketing?
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Amen!
This is insane; I am sorry, but however annoying he is, he does not deserve 65 years.
This society is nuts- Why would we put someone like him away for any length of time, and then, as Gordo says, let child molesters our of prison.
It makes no sense!
Seize the assets, pay the fine, and do community service.
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They give Him 65 years while they let child molesters go free every day.
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