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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. Excellent. This guy is a scumbag. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few weeks ago, my boss' 8-yr-old daughter was at school, in the computer lab. She went to go to Yahoo's kid site, Yahooligans, but mistyped it - www.yahooligons.com. She got the porn ad page. So, to her credit, she backed out. To her ANTI-credit, though, she went back, called a friend over to check it out. I can imagine this girl going "Look! BOOBIES!" *laugh*. Another nearby kid saw this, and told a teacher. The principal wanted to suspend her for a week - the parents (who rushed to the school when they heard about this) managed to talk them down to a day.

    A couple of days later, I start sniffing around WHOIS records, and whose name do I find attached to the domain? John Zuccarini.

    Glad to see this scumbag getting what he deserves.