I've grown weary of having numerous amounts of spam filling my mailbox. Thus I've had a few different email addresses which I use to sign up for things which serve primarily as junk email addresses. My real email addresses remain preserved for business and actual personal matters. It is people like the guy in the above story who ruin email. No, I don't want penis enlarging drugs, nor do I need to shop from your online pharmacy, I don't suffer from erectile dysfunction, and I'm still not interested in a hot girl and a donkey show. Seriously, I grow weary of having to sift through pages and pages of spam from my old 1997 email account just to find out if there's important messages coming through.
But thankfully, one of the biggest spammers in history has been caught (actually he was caught a while back) and is now facing up to 26 years in prison.
Normally, I'd not consider this a true crime. I can hardly say I've ever felt victimized from the junk mail that I get. Just seriously peeved. Like peeved to the point where I'd like to find a few of the spammers who sent this crap and punch them in the face. Repeatedly. But aside from the rage-a-holic feelings, I don't consider it a crime. However, when some douchebag earns $300k in a year from sending junk mail to basically annoy people....well let's just say I hope he goes to prison for the full 26 years. And while he's there he can get "annoyed" by other inmates. Primarily because he was such a tool that he went to prison for sending out junk mail. Imagine the conversations he might have when he first gets in there.That year [2005], Soloway raked in more than $300,000 from his spam operations, according to his plea agreement.
Soloway has avoided fines in the past, but this time around he may not be so lucky. In addition to the jail time he now faces, he has also agreed to discuss his financial assets while being monitored by a lie detector.
While there have been hundreds of spam prosecutions in the United States, it is extremely rare for spammers to face criminal charges, and those involved in the matter say that Soloway's case could serve as a deterrent to other spammers.
"yeah, so what are you in for?"
"I killed 3 people in a blacked out rage over a gambling debt. How about you?"
"Me? uhhh, I emailed people a bunch of mail they didn't want, advertising things like Viagra and Cialis."
"You've got a purdy mouth."
"....."
Classic. Justice is a dish best served with a prison sentence."
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