Computer spammers are the elusive people so many love to hate.

They’re also hard to find but sometimes they do get caught.

A heartland man pleaded guilty to the crime at a time when spam e-mailing is on the rise again.

If you have an email account, it has probably happened to you.

It happened to UNO student Desi Holman.

"Spam to me is very annoying because it can get in the way of your business mail which you have coming in, which I have a lot of coming in," says Holman.

Then there are safety concerns. Some spam wants our money.

Others try to deliver a computer virus.

It's the reason UNO has cyber security director Bret Blackman.

"We maintain roughly 30,000 email accounts for UNO so we put preventative technology in place that blocks roughly 300,000 coming from the outside on a daily basis."

Worldwide, 90 percent of all email is spam.

The volume has doubled in a year's time.

Spam filters can't keep up.

Blackman says, "The good ones will stay on top of technology and stay one step ahead of the arms race of the preventative technology, so there will always be some spam that slips through the cracks."

Josh Eveloff is one of those spammers looking for the cracks.

We first met Eveloff last year in a story about his internet car lot in Omaha where he was helping people buy and sell cars on Ebay.

Now instead of helping internet users, he's pleading guilty to one count of fraud after violating the federal can-spam act of 2003.

It's only the third U.S. court case against spam senders under that act.

According to the prosecuting U.S. attorney, Eveloff sent millions of spam messages over three months.

He also gave spam emails fake header information so authorities and those who received the spam could not reply to or trace the messages.

One more win against spammers which Desi Holman hopes will eventually hit the delete button on spam altogether.

"It's very annoying and it can cause a lot of trouble," Holman says.

Channel 6 contacted Josh Eveloff at his business, but he did not return my calls.

Eveloff faces up to three years in jail, a $250,000 fine and restitution.

His sentencing is April 30th.