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Another Millionaire Spammer Story
An anonymous reader writes "Here's another story about a millionaire spammer who thinks he is doing nothing wrong and can't wait to get his hands on the next generation of spamming software." See also the last installment.
an angry mob will teach him to stop spamming us
FTC> *knocking*
Spammer> "Who is it?"
FTC> "Flowers"
Spammer> "What?"
FTC> "Pizza delivery"
Spammer> "Oh. Ok."
Spammer> "Hey, you're that spam shark, aren't you?
"I don't do any porn or sexual messages," he said, citing a..
can't say I've ever heard of an "ethical" spammer.....
sounds like an oxymoron to me...
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
Find that T1 line.
Step #2 hire some blackhats to turn the entire center into a bunch of machines with blank disks.
Step #3 Repeat as necessary
I've got $20 in my hand that I'd give to that effort in a second.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
I remember people mentioning this a few /. articles back when we were talking about an effective way to stop spammers and Bernard Shifman...by reporting them to the Chinese government.
:) As was mentioned in the Buckeye case from last night, they'll steal^H^H^H^H^Hconfiscate all his equipment during the "investigation"...
Earlier this month, said Ralsky, somebody told the Chinese government that a Web company from which he leases e-mail servers in Beijing was sending messages critical of Chinese policy.
Police promptly raided the business and confiscated Ralsky's servers. Although they were returned a few days later, Ralsky now tries to cover his tracks better, so opponents won't know what companies and servers he's using.
Linford said he heard of the raid. "It wasn't us that caused it," he said. "But there are a lot of anti-spam activists, and apparently some of them on their own started organizing a campaign to get the Chinese government to think that Ralsky was supporting" the Falun Gong, an outlawed spiritual group the Chinese government considers subversive. "We didn't endorse that, but it shows you how deep the anti-Ralsky feelings are."
If that worked, maybe we can find someone with a much *longer* reach to take him down.
We need to start reporting him as a terrorist to the FBI. We know how pushy they can be.
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
Oh please, can we? Pretty pretty please with cherries on top?
It'd get my vote.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
But, you know, it sure would be a shame if some /.er in the Oakland area were to go get that address. . . and a real shame if s/he decided to post that address here. I mean, what good could that possibly serve?
Nah, spammers actually spur Internet growth.
Think of all the legit system admins who spend hours cleaning out overloaded systems, and programmers who develop anti-spam solutions for both networks and users, and additonal bandwith that needs to be purchased so that legit traffic can move past all the spam.
The fact is, the more spam annoys people, the more they're willing to pay us to make it go away.
You gotta love this reporter... From the article:
:)
"Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records."
So he *didn't* publish the address, just told you where to find it. Good stuff! I don't know what this says about the reporter's integrity, but in this case I think we can let that go.
"... the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy" - Janov Pelorat
Does Rasky delete the spam he gets?
Yes, Ralsky's been bankrupt and has a terrible credit rating. But he refinanced and got a good deal on a mortgage loan, and now he makes $$$ in a profitable home business.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
I'm afraid to actually check that out. Because if that is truely his address and phone number I feel really sorry for him. For sure latter tonight he'll hear:
"Hello, Alan, Have you heard the sad news? Steven King is dead at 54! Apparently he..."
As well as, "First Phone Call!"
And of course, "Hey, I've 1) Called you. 2) Uhhh... 3) PROFIT!!!! BTW, FreeBSD/Linux/etc are dying!"
But not before, "Hey Ralsky ol buddy. I think this call just might be one of several beowulf of phone calls!"
I live about 60 miles west of this guy. I wonder what I should get him for Christmas now, because the poop-on-the-doorstep thing has already been done.
When legislation doesn't work, sheer violence might. I say enough's enough, let's beat these people up.
evil adrian
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.
Yeah, and it can impregnate your wife, stop your kids from doing drugs and increase the length of your penis by up to 4 inches.
"Isn't technology great?"
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Do you know how he became a millionaire? By sending $5 in cash to each of the five names below. I didn't believe it at first, but it works!
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Yeah because, you know, he wouldn't want a bunch of unsolicited visitors annoying him and being a pain in the ass. And more and more would just end up showing up, enough to cause him a big headache, and creating problems in his attempts to get his daily activites done.
Sound familiar, asshole? Fucking lowlife spammers.
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
Instead of Spam Assissin, maybe what we need is Spammer Assissin
--Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records. --
Does anyone else like this info? Oakland County? Does anyone know if these are online? Here in Virgina, all court records are online. I don't know about realestate. It's county by county too.
Instead of using those free AOL CD's for coasters, maybe we could just mass snail mail them to him. Support your local post office, snail mail American.
We know where this one lives. Let's go kill him.
Of course, this is a joke. Surely there isn't a single person who reads Slashdot who has been so annoyed by spam that they would go so far as to kill him and burn down his house. Nope. Nobody like that. Even if that person would almost certainly be able to escape punishment if even a tiny amount of forethought were used in the attempt. After all, Virginia police couldn't even catch a homeless muslim sniper after multiple shootings; what are the odds they'll catch some geek who is actually paying attention to not leave any evidence behind?
Of course, this really is a joke. And everyone reading it should take it as a joke. Except for that one very special person. Yes, you my friend. You know what you must do...
"With all the money we're making from this movie, we could buy a lot of plane tickets..."
How many people wanna kick some ass...
Of course, we'd try for that but end up with "Tellem Steve-Dave!"
1) enraging /. readers to a frenzy
2) proving that crime DOES pay.
3) profit!!!
Or something.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
Ha! You've gotta love reporters sometimes :-D
Hmm... quite close to my home... I prefer following his car around and loading the windshield with flyers, and also start collecting junk mail for this mailbox. Maybe some Amway people should also try hitting him up.
I can bench press 300lb, run marathons and did kickboxing in my school years.
Sign me up, sarge.
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No, what if, say, 10% of his victims will send him a can of real Spam(TM)? Or gather with the cans into a nice projectile delivery action?
I'd recommend to have the cans open. And matured in a warm place for a few weeks.
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.
Violence is very rarely a good idea
Not true. Violence is very often a great idea. Violence is able to solve entire classes of problems that cannot be solved by other methods. Contrary to the modern mythology of "violence never solves anything", history is clear that it is often the ONLY long term solution to many problems. If violence isn't solving your problems, then you're just not using enough violence.
Bullcrap. That is all.
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Oh please. Talk about your typical case of geeky melodrama. Spare me your tales of woe and lost disk space and go get a real mail client with a real spam filter and get on with your life. With a bit of intelligance it's utterly trivial to reduce the amount of real spam that you acutally see to single messages per week.
p.s. for $250 i can sell you a few million e-mail addresses.