"Spam King" sentenced, but another spammer escapes

In a victory for email recipients everywhere, "Spam King" Robert Soloway was sentenced to 47 months in federal prison. Soloway had been accused of violating the federal CAN-SPAM Act. In loosely related news, convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson escaped from a minimum security federal prison camp in Colorado after serving 5 weeks of a 21 month sentence. Perhaps the Spam King will be serve time in a facility that's a little more secure.

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Jul
25
2008
Published on Friday, July 25 2008 at 04:32 PM by Steve Werby in the Information Security blog.
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