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Title: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Karlos on April 08, 2004, 10:34:31 AM

I dunno if this has been posted already, but story here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/3594043.stm)...

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: that_punk_guy on April 08, 2004, 10:37:52 AM

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The prosecution said when Okoeguale was arrested he had floppy disks which could scan websites for e-mail addresses and for sending "spam" messages.

I just love it when they dumb it down so much that it looks like the floppies did it of their own accord! :-D

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Karlos on April 08, 2004, 10:40:59 AM

Yeah, saw that :lol:

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: adz on April 08, 2004, 10:50:36 AM

Wooohooo, now if only they could imprison the other million or so spammers, my inbox wouldn't be filled with piles of absolute crap each day :-x


BTW...Karlos, why is that poor weeble still under interrogation??? :-D

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: blobrana on April 08, 2004, 10:52:56 AM

Hum,
The word `Hammer` could have been inserted there as well...
 










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Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Karlos on April 08, 2004, 10:55:04 AM

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adz wrote:
Wooohooo, now if only they could imprison the other million or so spammers, my inbox wouldn't be filled with piles of absolute crap each day :-x

Actually (although I don't recall where I read it), it's estimated that 90% of all spam email (comprising half of all internet traffic) originates from as few as 150 individuals worldwide.

I'd say this particular guy, with some disks full of email harvesters, was real small-fry. But it's a start.

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BTW...Karlos, why is that poor weeble still under interrogation??? :-D

He has yet to confess where he has hidden all the pies...:lol:

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: adz on April 08, 2004, 11:01:34 AM

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Actually (although I don't recall where I read it), it's estimated that 90% of all spam email (comprising half of all internet traffic) originates from as few as 150 individuals worldwide.

I recall seeing that somewhere too, but I find it a tad difficult to believe given the extreme level of spam, lets face it, the computer community ain't what it used to be, and sadly it seems its only going to get worse, time to dust off the C64 me thinks :-D

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Karlos on April 08, 2004, 11:04:48 AM

I dunno, picture a few (as in a hundred or so) fairly well kitted out machines set up to do nothing but email people all day, every day via a high speed connection.

It wouldn't take that many to generate the tide of sh!te that arrives in any mail address you ever had harvested.

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: adz on April 08, 2004, 11:07:23 AM

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Karlos wrote:
I dunno, picture a few (as in a hundred or so) fairly well kitted out machines set up to do nothing but email people all day, every day via a high speed connection.

It wouldn't take that many to generate the tide of sh!te that arrives in any mail address you ever had harvested.

True...sad really, considering those machines could be used for something useful :-(

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: cecilia on April 08, 2004, 02:03:40 PM

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adz wrote:
True...sad really, considering those machines could be used for something useful :-(

yeah, set them free for SETI!
 :-P

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Karlos on April 08, 2004, 02:44:46 PM

Perhaps some prison warden or other might print out all the spam he ever got, roll it up tight and insert it painfully back in the guys personal outbox :lol:

You can only hope...

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: ottomobiehl on April 08, 2004, 05:40:39 PM

Don't forget the virus writers who write viruses (sp?) to take control of other peoples computers and turn them into zombie machines, which generate alot of spam. :-o

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: adz on April 11, 2004, 12:37:48 PM

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Karlos wrote:
Perhaps some prison warden or other might print out all the spam he ever got, roll it up tight and insert it painfully back in the guys personal outbox :lol:

You can only hope...

 :roflmao:
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Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: AccyD on April 11, 2004, 06:30:16 PM

I was reading something yesterday that a chap had been took to court by AOL for sending spam across their networks and they took his Porsche Boxster as payment of a fine.

Not bad....wonder which AOL exec has a new company car??  :-)  :-)

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: swift240 on April 11, 2004, 08:41:41 PM

20 months?    Is that all, I would give people like that 20 years no messing.
Put there faces in every newspaper in the land.
Give away his posesions to the needy.

Thats for starters.


Mike......

 :pissed:

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Karlos on April 12, 2004, 02:00:55 AM

I wonder how long it will take for a flood of emails from some unpronouncably named nigerian people "requesting financial assistance", "at no risk to you" to help free some wrongfully incarcerated relation, who upon having their funds transferred will buy themselves out of prison and give use x % :lol:

Title: Re: Spammer in the Slammer :-)
Post by: Lo on April 12, 2004, 02:17:13 PM

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"Send coconuts and cans of Spam to Cantor & Co.," one outraged Usenet reader wrote amid the uproar that followed the Canter & Siegel message. "(Be sure to drop the can of Spam on its seam first.)"

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