Robert Alan Solway got arrested - breather for surfers

The "Spam King" is finally on the right side of the bars, and none too soon.

Robert Alan Soloway (born 1980, Washington State, United States) is the founder of the so-called "Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam", or SPAMIS, but is himself said to be one of the Internet's biggest spammers through his company, Newport Internet Marketing (NIM). He was arrested on May 30, 2007 after a grand jury indicted him on charges of identity theft, money laundering, and mail, wire, and e-mail fraud. He was nicknamed "Spam King" by prosecutors.

Indicted on 35 counts including mail fraud, identity theft, wire fraud, money laundering and more, Robert Solway must now be wishing he’d never decided to get into the spam business, dethroned as he is as one of the Kings of Spam.

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