The press is full of the news that Robert Alan Soloway, the “Spam King” has been arrested. See, for example, Spam King and the zombie computers from the Times Online. For more there is a site, solowaysucks.net that has links and an image of the arrest warrant.
I think it interesting that it is business owners that he preyed on and leveraged for his zombie empire.
Prosecutors allege that Mr Soloway preyed on computer-gullible business owners who thought they were hiring a legitimate company to help to increase traffic to their website. He then used their sites to send waves of spam in their names. When they complained, he threatened to charge them extra fees and report them to collection agencies.