Every time I see a spam message in my inbox or read about spam, I wonder, "who are these people who buy this stuff?" Somebody must be buying it, or spammers would give up and do something else. This news report from Yahoo shows that spam does pay, at least until they catch you.

Evidently, Robert Alan Soloway was indicted with 35 counts of various frauds and thefts, and is being sued for $773,000 having already survived at least $17 million in civil judgements. That's a lot of male enhancement products, fake rolexes and pirated software.

As if being indicted, sued and generally reviled wasn't enough, Soloway has to suffer being gloated over by Microsoft attorneys. You know you've sunk low when Microsoft's lawyers say you're a bad person.

"He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day."

And I suppose I have to agree with those lawyers for once. Will this lower the mercury in the spamometer? Sadly, I doubt it will make much of a dent in the long run of junk email.

Speaking of email, I've just discovered an interesting blog about "...the challenges and risks of managing corporate email and IM." The bit about "email bankruptcy" is especailly interesting.

Posted by David Karp
digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page

Comments

Leave a comment

Name   Email Address   Your website

Comments

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://156.21.1.19/mt-tb.cgi/1578