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	E-mail this story     Printer-friendly version     Bookmark this page Spam king Adam Vitale busted by Secret Service February 28, 2006   Adam Vitale, aka Batch1 aka Baxter, 25, of Boynton Beach, FL, and his partner Todd Moeller, aka M3rk, of New Jersey, are accused of sending nearly 50,000 pieces of spam e-mail to more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers.         TOP STORIES Government intervenes in warrantless wiretapping lawsuit Commtouch unveils image-based spam defense Verizon sued over NSA surveillance US spy agency building database of every call ever made Email bomber heads back to court Zombie master Jeanson Ancheta sentenced to 5 years in prison New York man to settle in Washington's first spyware case US demand for college wiretaps questioned Russian virus distributor convicted Corporate instant messaging on the rise Court slams former spam king over spyware Hacker charged with stealing information from military MPAA releases new piracy loss data Spam King Alan Ralsky not jailed Consumers in the dark about latest tech buzzwords more    US Secret Service agents used a confidential informant to hire Moeller and Vitale to deliver spam, which advertised a computer security product. Moeller charged the informant $6,500 so that he and Vitale could buy the computer equipment to send the junk mail, court documents show. Moeller also struck a deal with the informant, netting him half the proceeds from the sale of the security product and a payment of $40,000 from the initial profits. Todd Moeller has several ROKSO hits for being in spam affiliate programs, notably lifesmile. He also pumped pills. Spammer Christopher J. Brown, aka Swank, outs Vitale as being part of g00dfellas.com.   E-mail this story     Printer-friendly version     Bookmark this page
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