US 'Spam King' new slick face of cyber crime
0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — They call him the "Spam King," but Robert Soloway is an unlikely figure accused of flooding computers with emails promoting everything from sex aids and penis enlargements to "pump-and-dump" stock schemes.
Far from being an introverted computer nerd, Soloway dined at fine restaurants, threw hip parties, drove a Mercedes convertible and wore designer clothes.
And US officials are now branding him the king of one of the most vexing phenomenons of this interconnected, computerized world -- the tide of unwanted spam swamping email in-boxes.
"He was a con man living quite a lavish lifestyle," Assistant US Attorney Kathryn Warma told AFP after Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, late last month.
"He does not fit the...
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