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Peter Levashov, alleged Russian operator of the Kelihos botnet. Extradited by Spain and facing trial, currently in a Connecticut jail.
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Canter & Siegel, a husband and wife who famously posted one of the first commercial Usenet spam advertisements to thousands of newsgroups and were defiant in the face of thousands of email flames, having supposedly generated over $100,000 in revenue from the ad.
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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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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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Nathan Blecharczyk, one of the founders of Airbnb, who paid his way through Harvard by providing spammers hosting services.
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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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