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Khan C. Smith, the first major prolific spammer and technology developer to be sued by a major ISP in a landmark case resulting in a $25 million fine and collapse of the largest spam network in history. Court documents show his illegal network delivered over 25% of all email sent in the world until 2001.
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Scott Richter, who paid $7 million to Microsoft in 2006 in a settlement arising out of a lawsuit alleging illegal spam activities.
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Serdar Argic (a.k.a. Zumabot), who disrupted Usenet by posting up to 100 messages per day on different newsgroups in an attempt to deny the Armenian Genocide.
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Jody Michael Smith, a spammer and director of the world's largest online replica watch network. Shut down by the FBI and FTC in October 2008. Smith served 11 months in federal prison and forfeited over $800,000 in assets.
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Peter Francis-Macrae, convicted of fraudulent trading, blackmail, and violent threats after sending thousands of businesses solicitations to purchase .eu internet domains he did not own.
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Kevin Lipsitz, aka “Krazy Kevin”, a prolific spammer convicted in New York on fraud charges in 1997, stemming from his spamming of Usenet newsgroups with advertisements using AOL.com as a "Reply-to:" address. He resumed spamming in 1999.
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