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Gotcha! DNS Popup Scammer Fined $1.9 Million

Posted by timothy on from the and-the-people-say-bite-me dept.

Mister B writes: "A scam artist who trapped surfers mistyping their URLs (including those for children's websites) and barraged them with popup ads for pr0n and gambling has been busted to the tune of about $2 million. Apparently the FTC got ticked after having to close 64 separate browser windows! The FTC has a sense of humour nevertheless: the case name is 'Cupcake Party' (the scammer did business under 'Cupcake') :-) . More details at MSNBC and the FTC."

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  1. Re:What I fail to see is this..... by zmooc · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So. It's considered criminal behaviour when I ask you for a document and you send it to me and then I happen not to like it? Don't open the fucking 64 popups! It's your computer opening them so don't blame this guy that put them there. That's pathetic. If you don't like what YOUR computer is doing, then have it fixed. But don't go complaining that you don't like this content which is a pretty good yoke as far as I'm concerned.

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