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SEC Institutes Proceedings Against Rodona Garst
Hayzeus writes: "The SEC has instituted
administrative proceedings against Super Spammer
Rodona Garst. For those of you who don't know already, Ms. Garst was allegedly hacked by someone furious that she had forged his domain name on repeated spam mailings. Lots of
pretty embarrassing stuff (including photos!)
were subsequently posted to the net. The original site is down, but the link above should work."
As a small business owner in the Internet information propogation industry, and like many of the members of Slashdot, I hate SPAM. I would like to submit a list of anti-SPAM proponents, in the form of a Slashdot thread. So, if you support the prosecution of SPAMers, please post a response to this message containing a valid email address so that we may avoid any chance of identity theft. Thank you for your help. Down with SPAM!
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Oh I shall be so upset when they are rotting in jail, or bankrupted for the rest of their natural life- I just don't know how I will manage to console myself...
Whoooohhooo! Yes! Going dowwwwwwn! ;-)
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Man he is good, check this out. Its a picture of the spammer! Breast Size
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From the pictures, I can see she'll have no future in face-to-face customer interaction. There's a reason she's "doing business" over the internet.
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I thought I would do what I considered my duty, so I called one of the listed contact numbers for Rodona to let her know how I felt about her activities. To my suprise I got an answering machine. Thinking I would see what happened I pushed a coulple of random buttons on my phone's keypad, and suddenly I was granted access to the voicemail! She currently has two messages, one from who is apparently her husband ("Hi honey, you there?") and someone named Tonya. I tried it twice, and it worked both times!
Do your duty as a fellow slashdotter and call this spammer and leave her a message, or listen to her messages!
I'm not kidding, this really works! (or at least it does until 10000 slashdotters call her phone...) I hope it is still her number, "Tonya" left a message for "Robin" not "Radona" so the number may have changed.
Anyway, it is this number: +1 (931) 431-6711 Rodona Garst 1226 Cobblestone Ln Clarksville TN 37042-5890
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That guy never said the government needs to make what he does legal.
If the RIAA wants to DoS file-sharers, fine. If they get caught they should get in trouble for it like anyone.
mark
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
Heh. This must be the person who received literally thousands and thousands of mortgage leads from me. The form fields are very familiar to me. I was bored one day, so I wrote a little app that I would plug those mortgage spam sign-up forms into, and it would randomly generate names, addresses and phone numbers and repeatedly submit the form, with a short, random delay in between submissions. I remember once letting it run up over 5,000 submissions to the same site. Not that I cared that they knew my data was fake, I just wanted to make it impossible to find real data in that mess. I should try to dig that little app up...
Number of Freckles on Rodona Garst Ass
Rodona Garst Breast Size
A Date With A Spam Queen (Shary Valentine)
Though frankly if she gets you off, you're officially desperate!
Ali
Ph33r m3!!!
The new goatse:
Rodona Garst!
(Ugly, flashing the camera. You have been warned.)
I'd imagine that all that stuff he got from hacking her computer (s'cuse me, cracking her computer) would be inadmissible in court.
While the humiliation factor is pretty large, none of it's useful in court.
And I'd imagine this chap is in for one whale of a civil (or even criminal) lawsuit - breaking in and publishing information she wanted to keep private and all. He's likely broken all sorts of laws - and spammer or no, that's not good.
Not sure exactly what the charges would be (IANAL), but he'd better be wearing asbestos undies - cuz it's gonna get warm.
Who looked at this and thought "So, this is what happens when one script kiddie fights another script kiddie?"
I found the web page embarressing to all people involved.
C'mon. Many of you have gilfriends that aren't that good looking.
Make fun of her for being an evil spammer/password thief/pump-and-dumper and for being such an idiot. She deserves that. She even deserves thousands of people looking at her titties (and somewhat flabby ass). It's more brutal when you fairly and accurately ridicule someone. For example, the fact that she has those stupid inspirational posters on her wall clearly indicates that she's sub-human.
Well well...
Have we gotten this low?
I guess so =)
It's only soft anyways
God only knows what that guy did encounter on those spammers machines =)
Can't someone hack Jennifer and Melinda Gates' boxes?!
=)
c0w goes moo.
The SEC also went after Rice, the guy that hired her. Everything got covered.
I've seen attempts to sue spammers, to complain to them, to flood their phones, to complain to local police/attorney general. Nothing does much...except this.
Seems that the first effective clean sweep against a spammer that I've ever seen -- and it was done by a black hat. Frankly, I'm quite pleased.
Anyway, that should give others a bit of incentive to actively counter spam...
May we never see th
In light of the published photographs, that takes on an entirely non-financial meaning.
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
Gimp + pr0n + Rodona Garst pic = 1 even more screwed spammer! (pun accidentally
intended!)
SCO (noun.)- A Slimy Corporate Ogre. Often seeks free money.
cuz it's gonna get warm.
I don't know about that. That particular page has been up for a substantial period of time (I remember reading it quite a while back) and it appears that nothing "bad" has happened yet.
Not that that means something isn't going to happen tomorrow, I suppose...
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
You must be from backwoods Tennesee as well.
I probably didn't spell TN right, but I don't care, do you?
you know, i was thinking about this. like, all the information the guy acquired about this chick will likely be submitted in the court hearing.
BUT. the defence will probably move to strike it all, lock stock and barrel. because of the manner in which it was acquired. illegal search and seizure. actually, all out digital breaking and entering.
and if the ill-gotten evidence is thrown out, there is virtually no case. unless a proper search warrant can be obtained fFor access to her computer and all that same data can be gathered by the proper routes.
otherwise, she walks.
Could anybody please explain to me in simple terms what these SEC adminstrative proceedings mean. I looked at the SEC page referred to but I didn't understand it. I'd be happy for an explanation understandable for somebody who is not familiar with legalize.
virve
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And the judge will remind the defense lawyer that the exclusionary rule only applies to the government, not to private citizens, and deny the motion.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
The story as I understand it is that Rodentia was hired by Mark Rice to spam for certain stocks. When Rice wrote the spam text, he bragged about his (bogus) surefire history at picking stocks, and made other possibly false claims about the stocks and his investment prowess. In addition, the spam did not disclose the fact that the people doing this "promotion" stood to profit based upon reaction to the spam. There are a few standard disclaimers required by law, which you'll find at the bottom of legitimate analyses released by legitimate banks and investment firms. Forward-looking statements, yadda yadda.
The whole thing is known as a "pump 'n dump" scam; i.e. you buy a lot of shares in the company, pump up the stock price through some fraudulent or misrepresentative means, then dump the shares for a profit. It can also be done in reverse, by shorting a large number of shares and then issuing a bogus negative press release to drive the stock price down - look at what a single negative press release did to shares of ImClone, the company Martha Stewart got caught up in, and you'll get a feel for what a single statement can do to a stock (though obviously the ImClone release was valid). Typically the perpetrator will target a company you've never heard of, whose stock is trading OTC for fractions of a cent per share; that way the up-front cost is low and the risk is negligible if anything backfires.
It's very illegal, and this is what the SEC is going after them for. While the phenomenon was much more widespread during the dot com stock boom, it's still going on today and likely always will be. If you receive "pump 'n dump" spam, please forward it to enforcement [at] sec.gov.
Shaun
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
I advocate searching out opt-in spam lists for junk snail-mail, and putting her home address into them. When she needs a wheelbarrow to bring in the mail, I think it might just do "Man in the Wilderness" justice.
-Steve
Absolutely Fried Chicken Amazing job.
My hat is off to this guy for the website displaying all the content off the machines.
Postively some of the best entertainment I have had all week!
Hilarious!
PS: Thank You Uncle Bill for such a Crappy OS from which I would never have had this pleasure....
Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.