Spam King Faces Sentencing
Famous spam king Robert Alan Soloway will be sentenced by the U.S. District Cort after pleding guilty for the crime of mail fraud, e-mail fraud and tax evasion.
The first two year charges carry maximum 20 years and 5 years of sentence, and the tax evasion with a minimum sentence of 1 year. Fines of up to $250.000 and $25.000 are also possible.
The indictment alleged that between October 1997 and May 2007, Soloway ran Newport Internet Marketing (NIM) Company, selling e-mail spamming services and a software product that let others send spam of their own.
Soloway claimed that his company had created a database containing over 157 million permission-based, opt-in e-mail addresses which customers could use to target spam by geography or audience interest.
Now, after 10 years, comes the penalty!
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