Feds: Notorious Seattle spammer indicted, Soloway gets it! Options

[Farelf]

... RAS was slated to have his hearing on Monday last. I've been doing the rounds of the usual sources for info as to how this went, but haven't seen anything. I'd be interested to know if his bail is still denied and if he is still in Federal detention.

Haven't heard about that Rod.

Hm - 'bout that drop in spam, I wonder if ... As of the evening of June 7, anti-spam groups Spamhaus, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklists), URIBL (Realtime URI Blacklist) and others have been under a "pretty big" DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, according to the ISC (Internet Storm Center), which is run by the SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security). - Anti-Spam Orgs Under DDoS Siege. I guess no cause - effect link, it started a little later than the commented upon drops. I guess "they" have plenty of spare 'bots. Besides, amongst the "missing" spam there are one or two instances of mainsleeze, not part of the botnet scene at all.

But interesting, none the less. Well, that is if you have nothing better to think about ...

This post has been edited by Farelf: Jun 9 2007, 11:50 AM

[rooster]

Haven't heard about that Rod.
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But interesting, none the less. Well, that is if you have nothing better to think about ...

Steve;

Mayhap all Seattle's court reporters are in LA covering Paris Hilton; once again confirming my suspicion that ACME operates under the conviction that America's appetite for crap is virtually insatiable; ...whereas spam ... not so much.

Apropos spam loads: mine dropped from 30.2 per day (total for 3 email accounts) to 12.0 for 4 days, then bounced back to 25.6 per day. I don't attribute much significance to this --- just a blip that could be caused by anything.

[Farelf]

...Mayhap all Seattle's court reporters are in LA covering Paris Hilton; once again confirming my suspicion that ACME operates under the conviction that America's appetite for crap is virtually insatiable; ...whereas spam ... not so much.

Rod,
Unfortunately, it is not just America. Take the local "Big Brother" (please) - boyfriend of one of the housemates begging the public to vote his beloved out so family can finally tell her, 3 weeks after the event, that her Dad has died! Dunno what happened, don't watch it, but the brouhaha surrounding even the smallest and most inconsequencial part of this show is inescapable. I believe it is made in Queensland which would explain much.

As for the Hilton Heir(ess), I have found her to be of great utility as I have become accustomed to swearing great oaths by a prominent portion of her anatomy (not her nose).

...Apropos spam loads: mine dropped from 30.2 per day (total for 3 email accounts) to 12.0 for 4 days, then bounced back to 25.6 per day. I don't attribute much significance to this --- just a blip that could be caused by anything.

Yes, I suspect several things happened at once, one being some providers filtering like crazy and dropping many messages. My accounts are nowhere near back to "normal" (and it is the same provider for both).

[dra007]

Finally, some GOOD NEWS!

June 04, 2007]


Top Spammer Arrested: Report

By Calvin Azuri
TMCnet Contributing Editor

The man responsible for the millions of spam e-mail that computer users have found in their mailboxes has finally been apprehended, according to an AP report.

The culprit is Robert Alan Soloway, a 27-year-old guy who has made headlines as the world's most prolific spammer. Federal authorities, who arrested him on Wednesday, assure people that there would be a decrease in junk mail.

This post has been edited by dra007: Jun 12 2007, 02:31 PM

[StevenUnderwood]

Finally, some GOOD NEWS!

Merging this into the existing thread.

[Wazoo]

Merging this into the existing thread.

Not sure what might have happened, but .. I did the merge just now.

[StevenUnderwood]

Not sure what might have happened, but .. I did the merge just now.

Sorry. Work interfered and I never did return to the forums.

[Farelf]

...I'd be interested to know if his bail is still denied and if he is still in Federal detention.

Spam suspect denied bail Judge finds Seattle man could pose flight risk if freed before trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Warma convinced U.S. Magistrate Judge James Donohoe that Soloway poses a serious risk of jumping bail because he likely has large amounts of cash stashed in secret accounts.

"We don't know where his money is -- he made a lot of it," Warma told the judge.

Defense attorney Richard Troberman disagreed.

"He is cash-poor," the lawyer said. "What he owns is a lot of clothes."

Then how is he gunna pay you, Mr Troberman?

[rooster]

"We don't know where his money is -- he made a lot of it," Warma told the judge.

Defense attorney Richard Troberman disagreed.

"He is cash-poor," the lawyer said. "What he owns is a lot of clothes."[/i]

Then how is he gunna pay you, Mr Troberman?

Ta Steve;

The alert must have hit my inbox about the same time as yours. I would have checked my other messages and replied to this thread, but I was busy cantering up and down the street in my skivvies, ivy wreath on my head, strawing flower petals and chortling:

"Kaloo Kalay, no work today
We're cabbages and kings".

It took the missus a couple of hours to post my bail.

This post has been edited by rooster: Jun 14 2007, 10:00 AM

[dra007]

with a stunt like that I tought she might have picked you in a hospital ward....

[Farelf]

with a stunt like that I tought she might have picked you in a hospital ward....

Clearly Rod's good lady wife is a paragon of all the virtues and accustomed to suffering.

[rooster]

Clearly Rod's good lady wife is a paragon of all the virtues and accustomed to suffering.

Right you are. She ain't 'purty' or nuthin'; but she still has all her teeth and she scrubs up well.

[Farelf]

...she still has all her teeth and she scrubs up well.

You lucky devil.

[rooster]

You lucky devil.

Indeedy;

It was a tough choice between her and Minnie Bannister, but the missus was irresistible
by lamplite in her moose-hide body stocking and I was compelled to bid Rhythm Min a fond "Sailors' Farewell".

...but back on point... mayhap there is some room for cautions optimism that the Feds
are getting a bit of a handle on the bot-net problem.

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/botnet061307.htm

[GraemeL]

Spam suspect denied bail Judge finds Seattle man could pose flight risk if freed before trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Warma convinced U.S. Magistrate Judge James Donohoe that Soloway poses a serious risk of jumping bail because he likely has large amounts of cash stashed in secret accounts.

The court documentation for denial of bail is now available. Makes for interesting reading.

[Telarin]

Just as an update to my observation, I am still noticing MUCH lower than normal spam rates across the board (my Yahoo account, and the aggregate statistics from the spam filters on my mailserver at work and at home).

[Wazoo]

There are some folks conjecturing that some of the Botnets that sent spam last month are now all wrapped up in being part of the DDoS going on against numerous anti-spam sites and services.

[Farelf]

There are some folks conjecturing that some of the Botnets that sent spam last month are now all wrapped up in being part of the DDoS going on against numerous anti-spam sites and services.

Can't tell from "a sample of one" but that sort of fits in with what I am seeing on one of my accounts - virtually the only spam I have seen in the past 96 hours are totally lame "new kid" verification things like http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z13272292...;action=display (he doesn't quite get the hang of bcc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ). My other account is "routine" but distinctly subdued, maybe 25% of "normal" volumes.

[Merlyn]

Can't tell from "a sample of one" but that sort of fits in with what I am seeing on one of my accounts - virtually the only spam I have seen in the past 96 hours are totally lame "new kid" verification things like http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z13272292...;action=display (he doesn't quite get the hang of bcc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ). My other account is "routine" but distinctly subdued, maybe 25% of "normal" volumes.

Need to change it to http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1327229259z4...;action=display for non members

[Farelf]

Need to change it to http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1327229259z4...;action=display for non members

Thanks Merlyn, done in post & quote too ... my head must have been elsewhere, which is a bit of a worry.