Spammer Ducks For Cover

rabidgremlin writes "The New Zealand Herald has an article about a NZ based spammer who has shut up shop after being at the receiving end of an anti-spam campaign. Good riddance I say, but some of his comments ("never intended to break any regulations" and "I'll just stick to search engines and web sites - that's still plenty of fun and money.") had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the article makes out."

Comments

Re:Booo-hooo

[The Bungi]

Oh, and here's one of the abuse-sightings posts that probably did him in (Google thread).

Video of interview with the spammer

[waynemcdougall]

Mr Atkinson was interview on a 'current affairs' show on the state broadcaster.

What I find most notable is that he can barely suppress the smirk [IMO] when he says he didn't do anything wrong, and also when he said he was going to stop.

RealVideo can be found here: http://www.tvone.co.nz/programmes/holmes/

Change of Heart?

[z3ngine]

This latest report shows a big change of heart from his comments of a few days ago:

"If you don't want to receive spam, don't connect to the Internet, or don't have an e-mail address." - Shane Atkinson, 15th Aug 2003.

See the full story here [stuff.co.nz].


64% of all statistics are totally useless.
z3ngine.

Here it is

[Anonymous Coward]

From my whitepages:

Atkinson Shane
2 O'Neill Ave Harewood Belfast
0-3-323 6484

And that's in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Re:20 phone calls?

[GordoSlasher]

When you call a toll-free number, the recipient gets your phone number even if you have caller ID blocking. This opens you up for receiving telemarketing calls. Even if you're on the Do Not Call list, the fact that you initiated a call to them might give them the right to call you under the guise of having a business relationship.

The best thing to do with those toll-free numbers is to call them from a pay phone. The recipient pays an extra surcharge for calls from pay phones, and they can't track you.

Re:You hypocrites

[zakezuke]

You cry when someone sends you 1 or 2 spams a day, but then you go ahead and cheer on the people who do stuff like this? That's fucking unbelievable. Have you no sense? It's hypocrisy like this that's going to keep spam a problem forever.

Any responce via phone to spam is a *solisited* responce. "Stop sending me spam" would be a very approperate responce to such a foofoo head.

Because the system is automated, the guy is going to get several million responces to the spam he sent. If you run a business based on this model, you are required in most countries to be taken off their mailing list if you ask.

So, I don't see it as being hyprocritical at all. The guy runs a business of contacting people. If people don't want to be contacted, they have every right to ask him to stop.