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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."
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!"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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Premier@PREMIERSERVICES.COM
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...
The new goatse:
Rodona Garst!
(Ugly, flashing the camera. You have been warned.)
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.
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
This picture of a spammer in action was pretty kuehl too. note the URL in action there; i wonder if that was how the dude hacked'em. I assume it's some "unicode-bypass-of-IE-security-just-in-case-Micros oft-can-someday-use-the-egregious-security-hole-to -skrew-a-competitor-exploit" type of thing. Note also the non-dotted ip format. I've seen that in action by spammers before, but I've never bothered to figure out how the ip is packed into an integer (never mind why browsers bother to interpret it). Anyone... Beuler?
(like your sig too)
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
The odd URL is actually http://198.78.142.6/wawilsonrivermort.html by the way, but didn't respond for me.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
to change 98.78.142.6, fFirst you convert each number to binary. this is decidely NOT correct, but to give you the idea, it will look like 010011.001100.010100.000110 then take out the dots: 010011001100010100000110 fFinally, convert this back to a standard decimal number, which will be something like 4673828.
if you dont understand binary and base-conversions, fForget it.
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.
Yeah, or just (A*2^24) + (B*2^16) + (C*2^8) + D, for IP A.B.C.D.
I think there's another variation in which one specifies the numbers in octal...
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!
Note also the non-dotted ip format. I've seen that in action by spammers before, but I've never bothered to figure out how the ip is packed into an integer (never mind why browsers bother to interpret it).
Although someone posted instructions on how to convert it (it's just a decimal representation of a 32-bit number), there's an online calculator here for the lazy.
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.