Arrest of "King of Spam' man makes little difference in spam volumes

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Gene Johnson

Associated Press

SEATTLE - Junk e-mail continued to hit mailboxes around the world Thursday, despite the arrest a day earlier of a man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers.

Even if Robert Alan Soloway is ultimately convicted and his operations shuttered, spam experts say dozens are in line to fill the void.

“In the short term, the effect it's going to have is more symbolic more than anything else,” said John Levine, co-author of Fighting Spam for Dummies. “Soloway is a large spammer, but hardly the only large spammer.”

Levine said Soloway was a good target because he operates in the United States and has taken few steps to cover his tracks.

Soloway, 27, was once on a top 10 list of spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization. Others have since topped him, mostly based in Russia and other countries out of reach of U.S. or European law.

But Soloway remains on a Spamhaus list of about 135 spammers deemed responsible for as much as 80 percent of all junk e-mail, and one Spamhaus official considers him in the top 20.

“Most of the Russian gangs seem to have a lot more freshly hijacked computers and are able to deliver much more spam into people's inboxes,” said Vincent Hanna, a European investigator for Spamhaus. “The stuff that Robert Soloway had under this control, let's call it second grade.”

Soloway was arrested Wednesday on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Prosecutors say Soloway has sent millions of junk e-mails since 2003 and continued even after Microsoft Corp. won a $7 million civil judgment against him in 2005 and the operator of a small Internet service provider in Oklahoma won a $10 million judgment.

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spam suxs

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

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[almaty 19]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

hung high...

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

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seperate ropes for each nad!

Daniel

:energetic:

[almaty 19]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

hung high...

seperate ropes for each nad!

Daniel

:energetic:

and one for the big guy

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

hung high...

seperate ropes for each nad!

Daniel

:energetic:

and one for the big guy

each one with a yanking mechanism.

Daniel

:energetic:

[almaty 19]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

hung high...

seperate ropes for each nad!

Daniel

:energetic:

and one for the big guy

each one with a yanking mechanism.

Daniel

:energetic:

also, the rope used would have small fishhooks inserted

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

hung high...

seperate ropes for each nad!

Daniel

:energetic:

and one for the big guy

each one with a yanking mechanism.

Daniel

:energetic:

also, the rope used would have small fishhooks inserted

with lemon juice splashed on every so often.

Daniel

:energetic:

[Dan J 277]

Most of the spam comes for botnets. Which dont operate as fully complient mail servers. What I did was set up a greylisting mechenism on my email server, which gives the sender a temporary error the first time they try to send a message. A spammer wont retry again, but a legitmate mail server will try to send the message again in a few minutes in which case it gets through correctly. For me its cuts out pretty much all spam. Though I do have spamassassin for anything that gets through that.

[bruc 0]

I get 100's of spam every week from blog.com on my business site's request info page.

There seems no way to be able to contact the owners of blog.com so I had a good laugh when I read they work very hard to keep spam from their site.

I had a friend do some searches on domain name registars and it seems godaddy.com was one of the leaders for spammers....most use subdomain names that we get .

My friend also said Russia, China, and Brazil were the leading spam countries according to his searches.

We opened up a yahoo email account one day just to see what would happen and within a few minutes the spam was hitting the bulk mail folder . We check it several times a week just for laughs and have had over a 100 spamers in a couple of days.

Several years ago we were getting spam emails from our own email addresses being spoofed so we contacted our host server and they did get that stopped.

I would imagine that one day technology will prevail and will be able to lock in on the thugs.

bruc

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should be hung by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

hung high...

seperate ropes for each nad!

Daniel

:energetic:

and one for the big guy

each one with a yanking mechanism.

Daniel

:energetic:

also, the rope used would have small fishhooks inserted

with lemon juice splashed on every so often.

Daniel

:energetic:

Howzabout all of the ropes be greased with some rancid Tenderflake instead?