Down With Spam
I have a pet peeve. Spam! It consumes time and resources and costs many of us and many businesses as well money, man hours and frustration. For example I get a minimumof at least 200 spam or phishing emails a day. Even if this only takes me 15 monuties to handle. Thats 15 minutes every day, 1 hour and 45 minutes every week, 91 hours every year. This is just the minimum for me. Many days it takes me longer. Somne days I have spent as much as an hour dealing with Spam. So forgive me for climbing on my soapbox, but the cost of spam to me is nothing compared to some others and many many businesses. I wrote the following when it happened.
Alledged Spam King Arrested in Seattle Washington
Robert Soloway, the alledged Spam King, is Arrested! Robert Soloway widely considered most prolific spammer in the world, is now in the custody of federal agents. He is known to have sent millions of spam e-mails, so many in fact that we all should see a decrease in the amount of spam we recieve according to some officials. Government officials say all of his spam should come to an immediate end. Robert Soloway is facing a 35 count indictment including charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, email fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Yet we have to ask after the last 'Big Spammer' got off so easy, are the spam laws tough enough to put a real dent in the spam e-mails we recieve? Microsoft won a seven million dollar judgement against Robert Soloway and yet afterwards he continued to send spam e-mails out. He like other spammers often used names or addresses of real people and real businesses to hide his identity. While the people we talk to do not expect any real decline in spam we can always hope that with each new arrest we are closer to the end of our inbox frustrations. Personally I believe spam will continue unabated for the time being. Yet I believe every effort should be made to stem the flow of spam e-mails now and in the future. Spam costs individuals and companies many man hours of time and that translates to big money in the long run. Everyone should help fight spam every chance they get.
Author: Douglas Wolfe
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Alledged Spam King Arrested in Seattle Washington
Robert Soloway, the alledged Spam King, is Arrested! Robert Soloway widely considered most prolific spammer in the world, is now in the custody of federal agents. He is known to have sent millions of spam e-mails, so many in fact that we all should see a decrease in the amount of spam we recieve according to some officials. Government officials say all of his spam should come to an immediate end. Robert Soloway is facing a 35 count indictment including charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, email fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Yet we have to ask after the last 'Big Spammer' got off so easy, are the spam laws tough enough to put a real dent in the spam e-mails we recieve? Microsoft won a seven million dollar judgement against Robert Soloway and yet afterwards he continued to send spam e-mails out. He like other spammers often used names or addresses of real people and real businesses to hide his identity. While the people we talk to do not expect any real decline in spam we can always hope that with each new arrest we are closer to the end of our inbox frustrations. Personally I believe spam will continue unabated for the time being. Yet I believe every effort should be made to stem the flow of spam e-mails now and in the future. Spam costs individuals and companies many man hours of time and that translates to big money in the long run. Everyone should help fight spam every chance they get.
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Comments (7)
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
I have been going on about spam for years. I guess I let myself get into a mindset and saw nothing but the time and frustration. But another member opened my eyes to an opportunity the spam we get provides us. They pointed out that some of the spam is sent by people trying to make it online like us. They buy lists never knowing they will be spamming people. The opportunity comes when you send them your offers back since they sent their offers to you. If it is just someone who was duped or go
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
Hi Christopher
The worst part is that most complain about spam. Yet in the article below. The spammers that were convicted in 2004. Created a bogus home business and spammed people with the offer. They only got 10,000 people to pay them 39.95 each in a single months time. So while many of us do rightfully complain about spam. Many others happily throw their money away by answering the spam ads.
Spammers make so much money its unreal. The alleged Spam King arrested in the last month
Mike Hunt6
G`day Doug,
i`m with you on this issue mate, while I don`t receive anywhere near the amount you do, one is more than I want. I do not ask for this email crap, its a pity some people actually don`t mind getting it ... thinking that just because they may find something of value occassionally, that its ok. Perhaps when their identity is stolen, or their bank account is cleaned out or when their computer crashes from the email virus they welcomed with open arms happens .... perhaps
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
A commet on SPAM.
On July 8th I recieved a record number of emails for me. I use 4 main accounts. In one account alone I recieved over 800 emails. Once I was done deleting the Spam I had just over 300 left. The time it takes to deal with spam for some of us is absolutly ridiculous. That is why I am so vocal about spam and spam laws.
Douglas Wolfe
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
(This is part 3 of 3)
I wrote this article on November 7th 2004. When the first major spam convictions were handed down in Virginia
Many states have now passed spam laws. These laws can vary widely from state to state.
Even legitimate e-mail marketing companies have great difficulty navigating all the various
requirements. Even the Direct Marketing Association and others who have been known as Staunch Defenders
of Indusrty Self-Regultion have begun calling for a federal spam law to
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
(This is part 2 of 3)
I wrote this article on November 7th 2004. When the first major spam convictions were handed down in Virginia
These people made over $24 million dollars by sending out massive amounts of spam through a T-1
connection according to the eveidence presented in court. Also the evidence showed they sent more
than 10,000 pieces of spam a day! They were apparently behind the infamous "horse Porn" spam mailings
as well as a fraudulent home business that brought in 10,00
Douglas Wolfe8
Web Designer & Developer
(This is part 1 of 3)
I wrote this article on November 7th 2004. When the first major spam convictions were handed down in Virginia
Slammer next stop for Spammer!
First Spam Conviction in U.S.!
Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted on three counts of using deceptive routing
information in sending bulk commercial e-mail and sentenced to 9 years!
Virginia's anti-spam law, which went into effect in April 2003,
allows the state of Virginia to prosecute spammers liv