Top Spammer Arrested
May 31st, 2007
Always the bugbear of us site owners, Spam is a real issue, particularly when our own domains become abused or in extreme cases blacklisted. Recently certain spammers were sending out spam mails purportedly from the bluekazoo.co.uk domain. Eventually I realised what was going on but not before I had received about 400 out of office replies in my inbox in one day.
With that in mind, it’s nice to see that one of the biggest spam lords (is that what you call them?), 27 year old Robert Alan Soloway has been arrested in Seattle. The full story can be found at The Register website. I’d suspect that any updates to the case will be posted there as well, given the level of interest in this as a test case of sorts.
Hopefully we’ll see more of these guys being arrested. I suppose if you are stockpiling Viagra, fake Rolex watches and diet pills then maybe you will be one of the few people on the planet upset by this intrusion on Mr Soloway’s civil liberties. Personally, it makes my job and my clients lives a hell of a lot easier.
For a business to sort through their incoming mail every day and identify and eliminate spam is time-consuming, and time equals money. I await his court case with anticipation.
