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Firm Pays 6.5 Million for Fax Spamming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

Geopoliticus writes "This article over at the Chicago Tribune tells of a car dealership in St. Louis that will pay up to 6.5 million to people it sent junk faxes to. Now, if we could just get this kind of settlement for all the crap in my inbox I could stay unemployed forever." If I got a quarter for each piece of junkmail in my inbox, it would cover having a pizza delivered to my house every day, and still have enough left over to get a few comics to read each day while I ate!

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  1. Re:It IS getting out of hand by Moonshadow · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Well, you could annoy your email address out of a spammer's DB.

    I wrote a little script that uses a spammer's "remove" form against them. Provide a host, remove page, and the correct parameters, and it will generate a crapload of fake addresses and feed them to the spammer's "good list" database. Once you get a good half million or so into the DB, the data becomes worthless to the spammer, because he has such a little signal:noise ratio. He dumps the database.

    Our complaint with spammers is that they force us to wade through crap to get to what we want. Do the same to them.

    Get the source at http://tachyonsix.com/spamdeath.txt