Monday, March 17, 2008

Spam king pleads guilty

A man once described as one of the world's top email spammers <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_hi_te/spam_arrest">pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges</A> of mail fraud, wire fraud, and failure to file a tax return. Robert Alan Soloway, 29, was dubbed "the spam king" by prosecutors who said he used networks of compromised computers to send out millions upon millions of junk emails since 2003.

He was arrested last summer and charged in a 40-count indictment. He agreed to plead guilty to the three charges and the rest were dropped, including email fraud, aggravated identity theft and numerous other counts of mail and wire fraud.

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