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In Pursuit Of A Spammer

Kyle writes "Over at DSL Reports, We are currently pursuing a spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area. This wouldn't normally be news, but we think Slashdot readers may be interested in just how successful we have been. What's more interesting is that the spammer appears to be posting in the thread."

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  1. How much in it for me... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I bring you back his ears?

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  2. Did you know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It turns out, after I caught a spammer, I wasn't allowed to kill him. Apparently, that's not classified as justifiable homicide. You know how silly I feel now?

    1. Re:Did you know... by fidget42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You need a license. Duck season, wabbit season, spammer season...

      --
      The dogcow says "Moof!"
    2. Re:Did you know... by sllim · · Score: 4, Funny

      However if he posses a risk to life or limb you have a case.
      That is why whenever you see a spammer you need to shout (so you can be heard clearly)
      "He's Coming Right For Us!"

      I recommend a bazooka. More bang for the buck.

    3. Re:Did you know... by blibbleblobble · · Score: 3, Funny

      "That is why whenever you see a spammer you need to shout (so you can be heard clearly)
      "He's Coming Right For Us!""


      How about "we have concrete evidence that he has weapons of mass destruction"?

  3. Re:I have said it before and I will say it again.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    AINAL? What's that? A lawyer for the Arctic Institute of North America?

  4. Worlds worst spammers busted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We are currently pursuing a spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area."

    Will be see this on Fox?

  5. Hanging chad spammer by dmeranda · · Score: 5, Funny
    We are currently pursuing a spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area. This wouldn't normally be news,...

    Pursuit of fleeing vehicles is much more common in LA, but the West Palm Beach folks are very fond of pursuing rental trucks full of votes to be recounted. So now they are just chasing a truck load of canned pork, doesn't really surprise me much.

    1. Re:Hanging chad spammer by 56ker · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sure someone's writing a blockbusting film using this plot as we speak. ;o)

      A West Palm Beach county resident - annoyed that his vote for Gore in the presidential election wasn't counted - decided to get back at the world by being the most notorious, infamous spammer in West Palm Beach county....... pursued by people all over the world.....

  6. A spammer a spammer! by NeoSkandranon · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've found a spammer, may we burn him?

    --
    If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
    1. Re:A spammer a spammer! by jokell82 · · Score: 3, Funny

      But how do you know he's a spammer?

      Well he turned me into a newt! ...... I got better...

      --
      I dunno who it is
      but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
    2. Re:A spammer a spammer! by Jardine · · Score: 4, Funny

      Only if he weighs the same as a wooden duck.

    3. Re:A spammer a spammer! by greg987123 · · Score: 5, Funny

      DSL REPORTS:
      Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! There are ways of telling whether he is a spammer.
      SLASHDOTTER #1: Are there?
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Ah?
      SLASHDOTTER #1: What are they?
      CROWD: Tell us! Tell us!...
      DSL REPORTS: Tell me. What do you do with spammers?
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Burn!
      SLASHDOTTER #1: Burn!
      CROWD: Burn! Burn them up! Burn!...
      DSL REPORTS : And what do you burn apart from spammers?
      SLASHDOTTER #1: More spammers!
      SLASHDOTTER #3: Shh!
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Wood!
      DSL REPORTS : So, why are spammers caught?
      [pause]
      SLASHDOTTER #3: B--... 'cause they send... unwanted email?
      DSL REPORTS : Good! Heh heh.
      CROWD: Oh, yeah. Oh.
      DSL REPORTS : So, how do we tell whether he sends unwanted email?
      SLASHDOTTER #1:
      Run him thorugh a Bayesian filter.
      DSL REPORTS : Ah, but can you not also catch valid email in a Bayesian filter?
      SLASHDOTTER #1: Oh, yeah.
      TROLL:
      Oh, yeah. True. Uhh...
      DSL REPORTS :
      Does spam sink in water?
      SLASHDOTTER #1: No. No.
      SLASHDOTTER #2: No, it floats! It floats!
      SLASHDOTTER #1:
      Throw the email into the pond!
      CROWD:
      The pond! Throw it into the pond!
      DSL REPORTS : What also floats in water?
      SLASHDOTTER #1: Bread!
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Apples!
      SLASHDOTTER #3: Uh, very small rocks!
      SLASHDOTTER #1:
      Cider!
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Uh, gra-- gravy!
      SLASHDOTTER #1: Cherries!
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Mud!
      SLASHDOTTER #3: Uh, churches! Churches!
      SLASHDOTTER #2: Lead! Lead!
      CMDR TACO: A duck!
      CROWD: Oooh.
      DSL REPORTS : Exactly. So, logically...
      SLASHDOTTER #1:
      If... it... weighs... the same as a duck,... it's made of spam.
      DSL REPORTS : And therefore?
      SLASHDOTTER #2: A spammer!

    4. Re:A spammer a spammer! by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 5, Funny
      But how do you know he's a spammer?

      He made my penis 6 feet long! (god, was my girlfriend pissed!) I might have been OK, if I'd only bought one.

      --
      Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
    5. Re:A spammer a spammer! by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hmm... Monty Python... Spam... Monty Python... Spam...

      Spam... Spam... Spam... Spam...

      Nope, doesn't ring a bell.

    6. Re:A spammer a spammer! by bigsteve@dstc · · Score: 3, Funny
      If I had a spammer,
      I'd burn him in the morning.
      I'd burn him in the evening,
      all over this land.
      ...
      (Call me old ... see if I care :-)
    7. Re:A spammer a spammer! by MourningBlade · · Score: 5, Funny

      He made my penis 6 feet long! (god, was my girlfriend pissed!)

      Ok, you had me going until the "girlfriend" bit.

  7. Am I the only one ... by BabyDave · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... who's got a mental picture involving a Benny Hill style chase sequence?

    1. Re:Am I the only one ... by DeborahArielPickett · · Score: 2, Funny
      Am I the only one [...] who's got a mental picture involving a Benny Hill style chase sequence?

      Not any more. Thanks a bundle.

      <cue chase music in brain, set to infinite repeat>

  8. Awesome!! by someonehasmyname · · Score: 5, Funny

    I live in West Palm Beach! I might try bribing his garbage man to dump a truckload of junk in his yard.

    --
    Common sense is not so common.
    1. Re:Awesome!! by mcgroarty · · Score: 4, Funny
      Well, you can legally do the opposite and pick up his garbage and have a look-see through it.

      It could be fun to share his private life with the world.

    2. Re:Awesome!! by Derg · · Score: 4, Funny

      i've found that 2 cases of whatever beer of choice of the garbage man goes quite a long way. nothing like 3 trucks worth of trash on the front yard of your cheating ex to help calm that broken heart..

      --
      I'm a little tea pot.
  9. 9 pages? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone with a bigger attention span provide a summary?

    1. Re:9 pages? by Klimaxor · · Score: 4, Funny

      an anti-spam forum got spammed by a guy trying to sell anti-spam software, and after doing a lot of inquiries to several whois databases, determined that the anti-spam spam was really spam spam.
      make any sense?

      --
      your sins into me, oh my beautiful one.
    2. Re:9 pages? by Kylow · · Score: 2, Funny

      Thanks for the vote of confidence!

  10. so if the spammer by curtlewis · · Score: 5, Funny

    So if the spammer weighs as much as a duck....

    then he's made of wood?

    and therefore?

    A WITCH!

    BURN HIM! BURN HIM!

  11. Re:heh by Klimaxor · · Score: 2, Funny

    sure as hell beats the Department of Justice

    --
    your sins into me, oh my beautiful one.
  12. the best revenge by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 4, Funny

    THe best revenge is a weblog post with his own info being higher in ranking than his own website :)

    I should know I killed a spammer called Bruce Cullen(a movie extra-Outbreak one of the invefected victims that died in the movie) with this technique..

    It was so bad that he stopped spamming altogether..:)

    --
    Don't Tread on OpenSource
  13. Re:cool by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 4, Funny
    who is Chad Deckard?

    Chad is also a business savant who has studied and solved every kind of business question, problem, and challenge that has encroached him over his business career.

    It will be interesting to see how well he copes with this problem.

  14. Re:cool by SoSueMe · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about using these names to fill in the form:

    Antispamcard.com

    Name & Address Title
    DECKARD, CHAD
    1300 N FLORIDA MANGO ROAD, #18

    or

    Name & Address
    HECKMAN, BRADLEY D
    1701 NORTH FLAGLER DRIVE
    SUITE 321
    WEST PALM BEACH FL 33407

    or

    WEST PALM BEACH FL 33414 P
    HALL, JAMIE
    323 4TH AVE, NORTH

    or

    KENORA, ONTARIO P9N -3H7 V
    EATON, TIFFANY
    1343 LAKE GENEVA DR.
    LAKE WORTH FL 33461

  15. It is GOOD.... by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: 2, Funny

    too see /. able to offer a little assistance to the anti-spammer world. The /. effect removing weak servers from the WEB one at a time...

    --
    . I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
  16. Great quote from the spammer's web site by bwass24 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Chad has seen and dealt with all types of mass media, entertainment, publishing, high-tech, and marketing companies like BBDO(Top 6 ad agency), to Turner Broadcasting Networks(CNN, TBS, Headline News, etc.) as well as Disney and Time Warner Media to name a few..."

    Hmmm...Well, I too have "seen and dealt with" BBDO (yes, I have seen their ads), Turner (I frequently watch CNN), Disney (sure I've seen that mouse and have bought stuff for my nieces at one of their stores), and Time Warner Media (I seen to recall that they have some sort of relationship with the aforementioned Turner...but I could be wrong

  17. Re:I have said it before and I will say it again.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    IAANPDWHNBTDTFSEOSTMLJTDEMS - I am a nit-picking dork who has nothing better to do than find spelling errors on slashdot then make lame jokes that don't even make sense.

  18. Re:Look at the posting dates by SoSueMe · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and you would be smoking, what?

  19. Re:What do they expect to happen? by Kibo · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The Chad" claims to be a "business savant." On his chaddeckard.com site. It's got to be idiot savant because part of his business sense had him trolling p2p forum as part of his master plan. If I want blood, I don't turn to stones, and if I want money, I'm not turning to people who make a habbit of not paying for stuff. I'll leave that business to the check cashing places and repo-men.

    --
    --Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
  20. Re:I have said it before and I will say it again.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Psst... hey buddy, wanna buy a block of IPs?

  21. Effective Anti-Spam Tactics? by MisterMook · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think we should just do a Slashdot story linking to Spammer websites every couple of days, the DoS attack should be brutal.

  22. Re:I have said it before and I will say it again.. by Jade+E.+2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    What really bothers me about spam is that they have to be so cowardly about it and spoof source email addresses like kajfaiojiu@iouem.com.

    On behalf of my good friend Kaj Faiojiu, webmaster of iouem.com, I'd like to ask you not to post his email address in public.

    Thanks.

  23. Re:cool by Malicious · · Score: 4, Funny

    I signed up 30 Times!
    Root@127.0.0.1
    Admin@127.0.0.1
    Chad@127.0.0.1
    Etc..etc..etc.....

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    01101001001000000110000101101101001000000110001001 10000101110100011011010110000101101110
  24. They don't punish them like they used to.... by grolschie · · Score: 2, Funny

    How 'bout a good ol' tar 'n featherin'?

  25. Re:I have said it before and I will say it again.. by zcat_NZ · · Score: 2, Funny

    "..NP.." ? Nitpicking is one word.. :)

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    455fe10422ca29c4933f95052b792ab2
  26. Re:I have said it before and I will say it again.. by zcat_NZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's say I've got the best lock I can get (Spamassassin).. I'm still getting 100 advertisers per day at least testing the doorknob.. most of them bring lockpicks (l0ckpicks...) with them, and about 5 a day manage to pick my lock and sucessfully shove their advertising in my face, even though they can obviously see that I'm trying to avoid it.. and all of them are wearing ski-masks.

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    455fe10422ca29c4933f95052b792ab2
  27. We cought a spammer! by michiel.h · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Drain his blood!
    kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!" they yelled and started their intense dance under the darkening sky.