SAN FRANCISCO - US prosecutors said they captured on Wednesday a nefarious Internet marketer responsible so much junk e-mail they called him "Spam King."

Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, a week after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud.

"Spam is a scourge of the Internet, and Robert Soloway is one of its most prolific practitioners," said US Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jeffrey Sullivan.

"Our investigators dubbed him the 'Spam King' because he is responsible for millions of spam emails."

Between November of 2003 and May of 2007 Soloway "spammed" tens of millions of e-mail messages to promote websites at which his company, Newport Internet Marketing, sold products and services, according to prosecutors.

Soloway routinely moved his website to different Internet addresses to dodge detection and began registering them through Chinese Internet service providers in 2006 in an apparent ploy to mask his involvement.

Spam messages sent by Soloway used misleading "header" information to dupe people into opening them, according to Sullivan.

Soloway is accused of using "botnets," networks of computers, to disguise where e-mail originated and of forging return addresses of real people or businesses that wound up blamed for unwanted mailings.

If convicted as charged, Soloway will face a maximum sentence of more than 65 years in prison and a fine of 250,000 dollars.

Prosecutors want to seize approximately 773,000 dollars they say Soloway made from his spamming-related activities.

- AFP

Just feed him $1.99 viagra till he bursts.

Good riddence! I hate spam. Next, let's round up the nigerian scammers.

Just feed him $1.99 viagra till he bursts.

Feeding him with viagra how about drilling a hole in the prison cell for him to release his spam and still holding the title of spam king.

Just feed him $1.99 viagra till he bursts.

Spam CD not Sperm

Just feed him $1.99 viagra till he bursts.

Spam CD not Sperm

And what's the most commonly spammed item? Cheap Viagra.

Just feed him $1.99 viagra till he bursts.

Feed him spam til he bursts !

Good riddence! I hate spam. Next, let's round up the nigerian scammers.

Not yet ! please,. im still waiting for my 27 miillion to be transferred into my account !

Good riddence! I hate spam. Next, let's round up the nigerian scammers.

Not yet ! please,. im still waiting for my 27 miillion to be transferred into my account !

Send him a different credit card number, maybe that will help.

Just feed him $1.99 viagra till he bursts.

Or feed it to his cell mates :-)

whats wrong with spam?

whats wrong with spam?

Probably the most awful food in the world. A fitting nickname for the garbage emails being talked about here.

Spammers are like cockroaches. Squash one and 5 more take their place.

Spammers are like cockroaches. Squash one and 5 more take their place.

Guess we need to start gassing them then.

did any of the spam baiter sites go after him?

In the last 10 days or so the number of messages in my spam folder dropped from the usual 100-120 to around 30 (automatic deletion is set for messages older than 7 days). I'd be curious to know if it could be related to the spammer's arrest?

Ya mine in gmail dropped also.

Pain in the ***

gmail at least filters out mot junk.

gmail at least filters out mot junk.

True - I only get about 1 or 2 spam messages a week in my Gmail account. Hotmail's improving too, my most spam-ridden accounts are normal POP3 accounts retrieved through Outlook or Thunderbird.

Spam = Sh@t posing as meat (replace the @ with an i)

whats wrong with spam?

..SPAM......awesome fishing bait for carp....u got the new pepper version now aswell...great for bouncing off israelis heads too whilst still tinned