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Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back
elhim writes "According to an article in the Moscow Times: 'Spammers last week got on the wrong side of the wrong man, and quickly found themselves with a taste of their own medicine. The man? Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov. Tired of the endless spate of unsolicited messages that clog e-mail systems everywhere, [Korotkov and others devised] ...an audio message to be volleyed nonstop to the telephone numbers listed in the... [email] spam messages.' Sometimes Russia reminds me of the Wild West."
I've always thought everything was bogus.
I'll order the penis enlargement pills right away.
--dpr
--larsw
First of all. A spam message with real, working means of contacting the sender? Why din't I ever get that? Only in Russia, I say.
And second, that guy is hereby my god.
...um...like...a sig...
They could have sent out two 250-pound gorillas called Igor and Radek instead of an audio message.
BOO! TERRO
BTW, Russia had its wild east. While we had our mountain man era, the Russian had theirs, except they were going in the other direction. The parellels continue untill the turn of the century!
You really, really don't want to get on the wrong side of Big Brother in Russia, China, and many other not-so-free countries.
I'd tell you about the story of what happened to the phone spammer in China that kept pestering a government office, but then I'd have to kill you... or someone'd do me.
So long story short... get the spammers to spam top government officials in Russia, China, N. Korea, and so forth... heck... maybe they'll drop a nuke on the spammers, and solve the problem for good!
Ha, ha.
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OK, I will
Phone rings: "Let this be a warning to you: in Soviet Russia, spam *recipient* drives you crazy"
Hang up
Phone rings...
"With the brainstorming help of the Group Against Harmful Programs...".
The Group Against Harmful Programs. Wonderful. Sort of like the Fantastic Four, or the X-Men. Sounds like the sort of thing Tron would belong to. "That's Tron, he fights for the users under the banner of the Group Against Harmful Programs"...
Cheers,
Ian
Please let me be the first one to have said that ...
Doesn't the Deputy Communications Minister of Russia have a secretary?
From the article:
Spammers have ways to get around anti-spam filters, he said, but it's possible to collect patterns from their e-mails and block certain logarithms.
What's the point? They will use polynoms! Oh.. I guess they meant algorithms.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
If there ever was a group of people that should be sent to the Gulag, it's spammers.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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Certainly, only you have to cross Russia, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean.
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In Soviet Russia, spam spams you back!
Of course, if I were a spammer, I wouldn't remove you from the list. I'd just move your contact details to the Reply-To: header. :)
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Another fun trick was to use a standard fax machine with a continuous loop of paper. Let that baby run for about 10-15 minutes and you'll create a lot of clutter on the receiver's end.
Just make sure you are using black construction paper.
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I wouldn't like to be the Russian Deputy Communications Minister when his mom sees the phone bill.
In Soviet Russia, the dead horse beats you.
we already ate the horse - and we don't HAVE bats, you insensitive clod!
If there's a phone number, then leaflet all of the phone boxes in the Kings Cross area with it advertising their "services"...
D.
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How do you telephone an email address? Well at least we know who's dumb enough to actually buy things from spam, assuming that you can figure out what the ringing thing on your desk is.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Does anyone have his email address? I need to send him a few mails with the phonenumber of my ex.
Ring Ring!
Oh A customer!
(picks up phone)
Ni!
Was there a lot of spam in the wild west?
> Another fun trick was to use a standard fax machine with a continuous loop of paper.
Be sure to use black construction paper. If they are using paper fax, the ink/toner will cost much more than the paper very quickly.
Better yet, use a computer and a fax modem.
To be truly cruel, scan a real document (wait for it) and then use Photoshop or some other software to smear the bottom half of the page. Then fax them this. It will make them think something is wrong with their fax machine, especially if you can send it from several different fax machines. (just change the info on your software and dialout from different phone lines). Then report that their machine is broken and watch them panic.
At one point I had too much time on my hands and a hate of Faxed Spam....
"Computer Scientists can count to 1024 on their fingers" (non-mutant, non-mutilatated, human computer scientists)
suspects fuck the shit out of the beat.
Wondering what would happen if you spammed this Russian politician and placed the number for the White House or some other important number in the body of the spam. I bet George W. would like it if the Russians were spamming his office. :)
Those who trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither" -- Ben Franklin
Little did you know that the spammer was the Uzbekistan phone company.
i prefer a roll of toilet paper. write "please hold the line..." on the first paper. then, if it is almost through, tape the first to the last paper...
:)
revenge is sweet...
the computer is online
i am not at it
what a waste of ressources
1) Change your phone number to a 976 number, where the caller is automatically charged $49.95 just for connecting.
2) Spam the Russian Deputy Communications Minister.
3) Allow the Russian Deputy Communications Minister to tie up your phones for several days.
4) Profit!!!
P.S. In Russia, spam profits YOU!
Your Honour, my client was so excited by the prospect of increased penis girth that he inadvertently leant on his 'F5' key while reading the plaintiff's web page.
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
"Spammers have ways to get around anti-spam filters, he said, but it's possible to collect patterns from their e-mails and block certain logarithms."
Yes, how dare those spammers try to calculate the correct power of a number. I'm surprised that so many spammers use the same kind of mathematical equation in their e-mail....
"i prefer a roll of toilet paper. write "please hold the line..." on the first paper. then, if it is almost through, tape the first to the last paper..."
Not bad, although I prefer to use a ribbon made of BLACK paper. As long as I am going to annoy the fax spammer, I am going to eat up as much toner/ink as I possibly can along with his paper.
Just a thought.
Shadow
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