When Spammers Try To Sue You

An Anonymous Coward writes: "I was looking for information about what recourse there is against spammers when I came across this site. It appears that Bernard Shifman sent email to several people trying to solcit employment via spam, and when they replied to him, asking him to stop, and reporting the spam to his ISP he threatend them with a lawsuit. It's a very entertaining read."

Comments

I've always wondered

[Lozzer]

What Signal 11 did when he wasn't on /.

it must be going really bad with the economy

[jas79]

resumes aren't spam!!
threating a resume like spam is just really dumb.
the way bernard reacted was even dumber. I doubt that a ISP would disconnect someone for sending a resume, but they do for sending flames.

Most companies are happy with a resume even in the current market.

companies want resumes. we want laws against spam. we don't get those laws when they include resumes.

Why Shifman got nailed.

[mrsam]

I think these anti-spam zealots teamed up on this poor spammer, and the only reason it went as far as it did (and as hilariously as it did) was because Shifman has a large amount of juvenile pride.

A couple of things:

1. I am the spambag.net guy.

2. In my experience, people who use the term 'anti-spam zealots' are either spambags themselves, of members of the mainsleaze spam lobby, (i.e. Ken Magill of the Direct Marketing Associations, or various random clueless marketdroids who occasionally write for mainstream rags).

3. The reason Shifman was piled on was because he deserved it. Nobody cared about him much until he began calling people up on the phone, yelling at them, or leaving crank messages on the answering machine. The initial version of spambag.net was only a few short paragraphs. Then Shifman began calling my voice mail and screaming into my answering machine.

Here's a free clue to wanna-be grubors and speedbumps. Be very careful before you decide to waive your dick around. Someone might just have a bigger one themselves.

Humor at the Expense of the Mentally Ill

[ROBOKATZ]

I don't think this is at all funny. Clearly this guy has some serious psychiatric problems and I'm sure this situation has just exacerbated his condition.

What if this guy were retarded? Would this still be a front page story? Would you all still be laughing at it, even though anyone could point out, "Look, guys, he's retarded, it's not like he knows what he's doing."

shifman's company info

[MathJMendl]

hey hey! take a gander at http://client.aavirtualoffice.com/LocalPartners/Pa rtnerDetail.asp?ID=8600&AccountID=9749 . it's a form at a website allowing you to email shifman...perhaps someone wants to set up a script to email him? or perhaps it should go straight to bernard@shifmanconsulting.com