Seattle “Spam King” arrested for fraud
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Federal prosecutors charged Robert A. Soloway on Wednesday with 35 violations of U.S. cybercrime statues, including wire fraud, identity theft, money laundering and violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
Soloway, who owned and operated Newport Internet Marketing Corp., allegedly offered to sell “broadcast e-mail” software and services to clients and spammed tens of millions of e-mail messages to advertise the Web sites from which he sold his products, claimed the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington in a statement. Soloway used other people’s e-mail addresses to make it seem as if other people sent the bulk e-mail messages, prosecutors stated in court filings. Using false information in the header of an e-mail can be a violation of the CAN-SPAM Act and constitutes aggravated identity theft, if the e-mail address belongs to someone else.
