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Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-soviet-russia-you-insert-punchline dept.

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."

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  1. Beware the Joe-Job by The+Famous+Brett+Wat · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Turnabout is fair-play. I used to make a point of phoning one of the local well-known-spammers when feeling particularly irate about him (usually just after getting spammed about the same old same-old again). Haven't heard from him in a while, though. In any case, I want to emphasise that you should be careful when you retaliate. There is such a thing as a Joe-Job (named after joes.com) in which a malicious third party sends out a metric buttload of spam claiming to be from you, and advertising your website, just in an attempt to cause shit for you. This relies, in part, on third parties taking retaliatory action. My own website has been the subject of numerous Joe-Jobs this year, strangely enough. So make sure you aren't hitting back at an innocent bystander.

    Oh, and in Soviet Russia, the punchline inserts you. Sorry, but it had to be said.

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  2. In Soviet Russia by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just shut the fuck up, already. It wasn't funny six months ago, it's not funny now.

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  3. Not always by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The exception to the rule are pump'n'dump spammers. They push the virtues of some penny stock in hopes that some suckers will buy, pushing up the price. Then when the stock hits a peak, they unload their stock (profit!) and let the suckers take the fall.

    For that, they don't need a contact method.

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