List of alleged e-mail spammers
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E-mail spammers are people who send unsolicited electronic messages in bulk. They could be sending e-mails for their own or their clients' business. Most of them do not reveal their true identities. Here is a partial list of known or alleged e-mail spammers.
- Serdar Argic - posted messages on Usenet.
- Laura Betterly, dubbed the "Spam Queen" after being interviewed by the Wall Street Journal
- Howard Carmack, sentenced to seven years in prison.
- Jason Cazes, of Kirkland, Washington, U.S., sued by Microsoft in December 2003.
- Jennifer Clason, pled guilty of violating CAN-SPAM act, Mar 2006. Sent over 600,000 hard-core porn spams to AOL users. Owns several hard-core porn sites and a site for stay-at-home mothers.
- Richard Colbert
- Golddisk.net, sued by Yahoo! in March 2004.
- Cris Fellegi, sued by Travis Hand
- Brian Haberstroh, owner of Atriks and other companies, who created a network (VirtualMDA) where people are (supposedly) paid for the use of their computer to send spam.
- Davis Wolfgang Hawke, sued by AOL in March 2004.
- Dan Ivans, named by Microsoft and ROKSO as involved in spam hosting [1] [2] [3]
- Jeremy Jaynes, alias "Gaven Stubberfield", sentenced to nine years in prison in February 2005 [4] but the judge postponed the sentence while the case is appealed.
- Leila Kaplan, Spammed multiple Usenet groups, and was prosecuted by AOL in 1996.
- Vardan Kushnir, Russian spammer killed in July 2005.
- Leo Kuvayev, Russian-American, alleged ringleader of one of the world's biggest spam gangs. He is facing a lawsuit from the Massachusetts attorney general which alleges that he, in addition to six others, is responsible for millions of unsolicited e-mails per day.
- Lin Hsien-ming(林憲明) and his Gsharp Corporation(績碩科技), based in Taiwan with branches in China. [5]
- Wayne Mansfield, Australian spammer.
- Nick Marinellis, Australian, sentenced to four years on convictions of fraud arising from advance fee fraud spam.[6]
- JDO Media, sued by Microsoft in March 2004.
- PharmaMaster According to Spamhaus PharmaMaster and Leo Kuvayev could be the same person.
- Alex Polyakov It is believed by some [7] that Polyakov works with Leo Kuvayev. Polyakov is responsible for the spam advertisement of many fraudulent sites [8] [9].
- Michael Pousti, CEO of sms.ac, an internet-based text messaging site renowned for spamming members and everyone on their contact lists. His company is also responsible for thousands of unsolicited text messages to cellphones throughout the world.
- Alan Ralsky, sued by Verizon in March 2001. Raided by the FBI in October 2005.
- Eric Reinertsen, Non-stop professional spammer since 1997. Scams, investment fraud, illegal mailserver hijacking [10]
- Scott Richter, sued by Microsoft, MySpace and the New York Attorney General
- Bernard Shifman, a computer consultant briefly infamous in 2001-2002 for spamming his resumé.
- Robert Soloway, founder of ostensibly anti-spam company SPAMIS.
- Christopher "Rizler" William Smith, drugs spammer, arrested, awaiting trial
- Robby Todino, the Time Travel spammer.
- Sanford Wallace, operator of Cyber Promotions, who unsuccessfully sued America Online in 1996 for blocking his spam.
- Billy Williams, of Hawaii, sued by the Texas Attorney General in December 2005 [11]
