The spamer who cant take spam...

Monty - the one and only

A millionaire spammer has had his info 'volunteered' for just about everything out there.

http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm

KdjaCL

sweet justice


LOL hes going to sue them.

kdjac

Wook

from what i have seen before , i wouldnt surprise me that in 'America' you can win those cases...silly country

Gordon

Absolutely great news, it brings a tear to me eye.

Anyone got his email?!

Lemming

A great start to the morning

The phrase "Poetic Justice" springs to mind

DiscoStu

Karmic Realignment.

Gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside dont it

daveirl

This post has been deleted.

Wolf

hehe..............


Wasnt he banned from the old CS boards ?

rymus

ahhhh sweet sweet justice

OLDYELLAR

hehe hes a popular guy so:D

Big Chief

how did he manage to get a $740,000 house though, through email spam?

hmm can i have everybodys email address please for reasons only know to me?*

*and 400,000 internet companys

Scruff

Originally posted by Big Chief
how did he manage to get a $740,000 house though, through email spam?

from the story the same reporter did on him here :

Ralsky makes his money by charging the companies that hire him to send bulk e-mail a commission on sales. He sometimes charges just a flat fee, up to $22,000, for a single mailing to his entire database.

Ralsky has other ways to monitor the success of his campaigns. Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened. About three-quarters of 1 percent of all the messages are opened by their recipients, he said. The rest are deleted.

From that response, Ralsky can monitor the effectiveness of his pitch and the subject line on the e-mail to make sure he's getting maximum return.

even more annoying for the future:

Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.

It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.

"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.

now that doesn't sound good at all!

Lemming

Originally posted by Scruff
even more annoying for the future:

this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.

now that doesn't sound good at all!

Even more worrying from a security stand-point.... instant delivery of virii or other such nastiness becomes possible if it proves to be successful at its task.

Cake Fiend

I'm surprised he hasn't been shot yet tbh.

TacT

Some people, such as this slimeball, deserve death


makes me feel all warm and fuzzy that he's pissed off though, all in all, TAKE IT! comes to mind :cool:

Moriarty

Originally posted by Scruff
now that doesn't sound good at all!

Sounds like all they do is send a 'net send' message to each ip on any ranges identified as isp customers. Firewalls block these messages, and you can disable the system that allows them to send you these messages by going to the command prompt and typing "net stop messenger".

Winters

I do love that

Stephen

I think this is appropriate:

Don1

A big fat Haaaaaa haaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

p

Originally posted by Sico
I'm surprised he hasn't been shot yet tbh.

For sending spam?

You Nutball!

- Kevin

phaxx

Originally posted by Lemming
Even more worrying from a security stand-point.... instant delivery of virii or other such nastiness becomes possible if it proves to be successful at its task.

As Moriarity said, it's only a windows messenger message, and one can't send virii with that. (so far. :P)

mirv

Originally posted by p
Originally posted by Sico
I'm surprised he hasn't been shot yet tbh.

For sending spam?

You Nutball!

- Kevin

Well, it is America after all.

Lump

Ha ha take it you cóck head. I'm glad one of them got what he deserves. I got 1250 Spam mails in 3 Months.




John

pickarooney

Does the email filter in Outlook Express ever work for anyone?
I keep getting mails from $myownname@debtreductionserviceofamericaonline.com
and have 5 or 6 filters set to delete such mails but they always manage to sneak through.