The largest spammer in the world is arrested in the USA

The 27-year-old resident of the United States, who is called one of the largest spammers in the world, was arrested on Wednesday. According to the federal authorities, users have already noticed that the amount of spam coming to their email has significantly decreased. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using a zombie computer to send millions of letters containing spam, AP reports.

“He is one of the ten largest spammers of the world,” said Microsoft Corporation Tim Cranton, who holds the position of the Worldwide Internet Safety Programs structure. “He has become a headache for our customers. Today is a good day.”

Last week, a large jury examined the indictment against Soloway, which includes 35 different accusations. Among them are fraud using e -mail, fraud using electronic means of communication, fraud using data from other people's credit card and money laundering.

Soloway, however, did not plead guilty to any of the prosecution points. The court did not appoint a lawyer spamer, deciding that since he is already the owner of four bank accounts with money stolen from the government, he is rich enough to afford the defender.

Soloway did not try to hide the amount of money he received. He lived in a luxurious apartment and traveled to the expensive Mercedes with a folding top, the prosecutor Katherine Voma said. The prosecution insists on confiscation of 773 thousand dollars, which, as reported, he earned by creating the company Newport Internet Marketing Corp.

According to the prosecution, Soloway used computers infected with viruses to send millions of spam messages since 2003. Infected computers call "zombies" because their owners, as a rule, do not know that cars are used by other people. Spammer continued his activities even after Microsoft won a lawsuit against him in the amount of $ 7 million in 2005, and a small sales manager from Oklahoma - 10 million.

American lawyer Jeff Sullivan said on Wednesday that this is the first criminal case in the country, during which the prosecution was used to use the provisions of the theft of personal data to condemn spamer for the use of other people's domains. Solouay threatens more than 10 years in prison, but the prosecution has not yet decided on what category to qualify the crimes he committed.

The investigation of Soloway's activity began after he was in the list of famous spammers compiled by The Spamhaus Project, fighting spam. Hundreds of complaints from injured people began to enter the police.

Soloway used the networks of computers infected with viruses to send messages to people with a proposal to place an advertisement for their goods on the website of his company. People who opened the letter fell on his site, on which Soloway proposed to send 20 million letters with advertising for 15 days for only 495 dollars.