Top spammer Robert Alan Soloway arrested

Robert Alan Soloway is arrested Wednesday on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Soloway has sent millions of junk e-mails since 2003.

He continued even after Microsoft won a $7 million judgment in 2005. A small Internet service provider in Oklahoma won a $10 million judgment. Soloway was on the top 10 list of spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization.

Soloway sent out unsolicited bulk e-mails using networks of compromised computers called “zombies.” His spams where most of the time promotions for his own email broadcasting activities.

While the arrest is important it will not create a substantial difference in the volume of spam on the internet. Even if Robert Alan Soloway is ultimately convicted and his operations shuttered, dozens are in line to fill the void.