• Karlie Kloss, Victoria's Secret model. Karlie uses search engine optimization techniques for keyword stuffing and doorway pages.^[13]
• Vardan Kushnir, a famous Russian spammer who was murdered in 2005 for reasons possibly unrelated to his spamming activities^[14]
• Oleg Nikolaenko, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in November 2010 as the "King of Spam."^[15]
• Ryan Pitylak, known as the “Texas Spam King”, admitted to sending 25 million emails every day at the height of his spamming operation in 2004.^[15]
• Alan Ralsky, Scott Bradley, John Bown, William Neil, and James Fite, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to use spam emails topump and dump thinly traded stocks, in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act. The group faced years of prison time and millions of dollars in penalties under the terms of their plea agreements.^[16]
• Dave Rhodes, the (possibly apocryphal) name attached to a famous chain letter titled "MAKE MONEY FAST" that originated in the late 1980s.^[17]
• Scott Richter,^[18] who paid $7 million to Microsoft in 2006 in a settlement arising out of a lawsuit alleging illegal spam activities.^[19]
• Russian Business Network^[20]
• Christopher "Rizler" Smith,^[21] who was forced to pay $5.5 million to America Online for spam activity in 2003 and is currently serving a 30 year prison sentence for charges not related to spam.^[22]
• Jody Michael Smith, a spammer and director of the world's largest online replica watch network.^[23] Shut down by the FBI and FTCin October 2008. Smith served 11 months in federal prison and forfeited over $800,000 in assets.^[23]
• Robert Alan Soloway, who lost a $7 million civil judgment against Microsoft and was forced to pay $10 million to a small ISP in Oklahoma.^[24]
• Gary Thuerk,^[25] the "Father of Spam" who sent out the first unsolicited email blast to 600 ARPANet members, in 1978.^[26]
• Sanford Wallace, who was fined $4 million under the CAN-SPAM Act in 2006, lost a $230 million judgment to MySpace in May 2008, and was ordered to pay $711 million in damages to Facebook in 2009 for accessing users' accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages.^[27][28]

References[edit]

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6. Jump up^ "Escaped 'Spam King' murders family". Melbourne. Associated Press. July 28, 2008. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
7. Jump up^ "Spammer jailed for £1.6m net scam". BBC News. 16 November 2005. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
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