28-year-old Robert Soloway, who has previously been found guilty of sending out spam emails, has been clobbered again by the US courts. Your inbox might be about to get a bit more bearable.
This time, he's really in trouble - the 'Spam King' (not pictured left, that's just an innocent women who has no part in this sorry tale) has been done for fraud and tax evasion regarding his spam-gotten earnings. While Soloway has apparently weaselled his way out of paying $7.8 million to Microsoft over spam charges he faced in 2005, escaping the proper LAW might prove a bit tougher...
Apparently earning $300k a year from his spamming system, Soloway has angered authorities - and hard-working, massively spammed individuals like ourselves - by bragging on the internet about being "sued for hundreds of millions of dollars" but never paying a penny.
He'll be sentenced on June 20, and his fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of 26 years. Rob's spam empire might be a bit hard to maintain when his only means of communication with the outside world is via one letter to his mum every week.
(Via Yahoo!)
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