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SEC Lifts Ax For Minnesota Stock-Price Spammer
thejuggler writes "A call to Samuel Meltzer's St. Paul home is greeted with the message that he doesn't want to be bothered by solicitations. But, this story in a Minneapolis newspaper tells how the Feds and SEC claim he is a huge spammer. They claim he sends out spam spreading false and misleading information about various penny stocks. So far he has made at least $159,600 in stock and cash from 1998-2001 for spreading this false information. In a brief interview Tuesday, Meltzer (The evil spammer), 37, said he hadn't seen the complaint. "This is a surprise," he added."
So a spammer doesn't want to be bothered by solicitations. You won't need to take your iron supplements today, folks! There's irony a-plenty here.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
We could rid ourselves of all these spammers if we just brought back the Spanish Inquisition.... although it seems as if the feds and SEC might already be getting their help....
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they are when you kill them.
Just wait until he tries to take a shower in prison.
He's probably just like us... too busy deleting spam from his inbox...
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Alleged evil spammer
Let's not commit libel here. He may be innocent.
Of course if he IS a Spammer, I'd saw we draw and quarter him.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
being spanish i can finally claim my very own cultural activity! hey the irish have their parades and drinking...! i want an inquisition, and i want it now!
I think he got to keep 500k or something, the rest was taken away (by who I don't remember).
Erm...the IRS?
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Just because he used email instead of cold calling little old ladies in a rest home, this makes it "news for nerds?"
Did he at least use Linux to send out the spam? Come on, give us some reason to care about this article.
They claim he sends out spam spreading false and misleading information about various penny stocks.
You mean to tell me that somebody's sending out spam with false and misleading information? Oh, come on now! Surely you're not serious! Next you'll be telling me that people are sending out spam with faked return addresses.
For every post, there is an equal and opposite re-post.
I thought 2-week MBA's went out of style with the start of the recession. :)
What's this Submit thingy do?
Slashdot looks to join the crowd
Can we settle on "evil alleged evil spammer"?
They might also want to take a look at Britney_caught_xXx_HOTHOTHOT@hotmail.com as well. This young woman has cunningly persuaded me ( weilding the lure of false information and promises) to spend at least $8,550 on internnet "entertainment" between 1999 and the present. I demand that action be taken.
You forgot "fhqwhgads".
Shouldn't that be the alleged evil spammer? Come on, even spammers are innocent until proven guilty.
No, we called him evil, so that makes it OK. You should pay more attention to GW Bush.
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If you complain about Spam on an airliner, will you get reported to the Homeland Security types?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with spammers? ...because they're... Videogames?
... A spammer!
Peasant 1: quarter them!
Sir Bedevere: And what do you quarter, apart from spammers?
Peasant 1: More spammers!
Peasant 2: Videogames!
Sir Bedevere: Correct. Now, why do spammers quarter?
Peasant 3:
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether he is a Videogame?
Peasant 1: Dominate Japan with him!
Sir Bedevere: But don't we also dominate Japan with excessively cute rodentia iconography?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Now, do videogames withstand a slashdotting?
Peasant 1: No, no... Throw him to the Trolls!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else does not withstand a slashdotting?
Peasant 1: Apples!
Peasant 2: IIS!
Peasant 3: Very small rocks!
Peasant 2: Debian! KDE Mirrors for minor upgrades!
Peasant 1: Mindstorms Segway Scooters!
Peasant 2: Beers cooled by Jet Engine exhaust!
Peasant 3: Matrix Movies!
Peasant 2: The RIAA!
Peasant 3: Churches! Churches!
King Taco: Atari 800s!
All Peasants: Ooooooooo....
Sir Bedevere: Exactly! So logically...
Peasant 1: If... he... computes as fast as... an Atari 800... he's a videogame.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore?
Peasant 1:
Peasant 2: A Spammer!
crowd: A Spammer! A Spammer!
Bedevere: Who are you who are so wise in the ways of mob logic?
King Taco: I am CmdrTaco, King of the Geekins.
Bedevere: My liege!
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We're talking about penny stock.
So, he was scamming in VA Linux stock?
Of course, "legitimate" stock brokers do essentially the same thing every day, and pull down considerably more than $53k/year doing it.
After all, if I didn't buy stuff from all the e-mails I received, I wouldn't have this pair of 36DD breasts! I just love kicking around in my cheaply-re-mortgaged home not having a clue what to do with my 24" penis...