One of the World's Top 10 Spammers Arrested!

Have you noticed over the past day a decline in the volume of spam-junk mail that seems to consistently, exasperatingly permeate your inbox?

If you have, this quite possibly is in direct correlation with the arrest of Robert Alan Soloway, reportedly one of the top 10 spammers in the world. Soloway used “zombie” computers infected with malicious code to send out millions upon millions of junk e-mails to unsuspecting computer owners, that likely had no inkling they were infected, since 2003 in fact.

This will be the first case in the country in which federal prosecutors have used identity theft statutes to prosecute a spammer for taking over another’s Internet domain name. With a 35-count Federal Grand Jury indictment against him for mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering, Soloway could face decades in prison.

The computer world may perhaps be little less polluted today than yesterday.

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