Interview With a Spammer

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Posted by michael on Saturday September 27, 2003 @04:53AM from the need-a-wooden-stake dept.

Shipud writes "The NYTimes interviewed Richard Colbert, under the title of 'Confessions of a SPAM King'. Richard talks about one-time credit cards, WiFi, 'good' vs. 'bad' spam and more."

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All I want to know is. . . by kfg · 2003-09-27 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny

can I harvest his email address from the article?

KFG
1. Re:All I want to know is. . . by linzeal · 2003-09-27 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Hope he really really likes pepperoni.
  
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  An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Spamming must be lucrative by l810c · 2003-09-27 04:57 · Score: 4, Funny

He lights up a Monarch menthol as he shows me his computer room, an intimate homemade space built off the side of an aging two-tone mobile home -- robin's-egg blue and white -- which sits among hundreds of Airstreams and Miami Deco single-wides in the Sunset Colony Mobile Home Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
What a life!
1. Re:Spamming must be lucrative by Lord_Slepnir · 2003-09-27 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Unfortunatly, the Mobile home has become a necessity for the spammer. The need to relocate on a moments notice and be able to out pace the lynch mob once they have your address should not be underestimated.
2. Re:Spamming must be lucrative by FireBreathingDog · 2003-09-27 06:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Or just wait for a tornado to take care of it for you.
  
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  Shame on Google.
Re:Eh? by Brainboy · 2003-09-27 04:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Well if you leave an open can of spam out, it can go bad. Oh wait... wrong kind of spam.

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Just a guy with an opinion
'good' vs 'bad' spam by Kjella · 2003-09-27 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny

The spammers' definition:
Good: The spam I send and make me money
Bad: All that junk that fills up my inbox

Kjella

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Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Re:Finally, confirmed. by MassacrE · 2003-09-27 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I get excited about an awesome car with a sexy girl in it, who has an active e-mail address ;-)
isnt' this interesting... by Lord_Slepnir · 2003-09-27 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

An NYTimes.com member account already exists for fuckyounyt@fuckyounyt.com. If this is your e-mail address, click here to retrieve your password. Otherwise, enter your correct e-mail address and click below to register.
I should be surprised, but somehow i'm not....
All-time favorite interaction with a spammer by Kurt+Gray · 2003-09-27 05:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Everyone has their own favorite story about an interaction with a real live spammer, this is my personal favorite from the archives of Hot Wired's defunct Packet column, called "My Spammer Dream Date"
Who buys this stuff? by ToddUGA95 · 2003-09-27 05:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Fat people with small penis' who never went to college I would assume.
Re:I've gotta hand it to this guy... by KC7GR · 2003-09-27 05:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Smart? Yeah, sure... 'Smart' like the petty criminal he really is.

Spammers, as a rule, either have zero concept of private property rights, or they (like telemarketers) think they have some mysterious "right" to (ab)use their intended recipient's E-mail boxes.

If this creepoid is so smart, and making so many $$, why is he living in a dilapidated mobile home in the middle of a Florida trailer park?

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Bruce Lane, KC7GR,

Blue Feather Technologies
Does God hate spammers? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-27 05:55 · Score: 2, Funny

If that trailer park the guy is living in gets leveled by a tornado, we'll know.
Absolutely Disgusting... by Lobsang · 2003-09-27 07:06 · Score: 2, Funny

It amazes me how these degenerates get space in the NY Times and other important matters just don't get covered at all. The guy is an unscrupulous SOB who is willing to harass 1 million people for a meager $900.

His home is not that far from mine. I think we should get a bunch of slashdotters and go there break his legs, which, in my lingo, is called "mass beating". :))
Even better by LinuxGeek · 2003-09-27 07:09 · Score: 2, Funny

I'll bring the tar, you bring the feathers.

Forget the tar and feathers, cover him with the spammers delight: a golden shower from middle aged russian women followed by rolling him in penis enlargment pills. Then sign him up for a home improvment loan on his "mobile palace".

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Re:Helpless? by blibbleblobble · 2003-09-27 09:10 · Score: 2, Funny

"A good method for avoiding spam, then, is to always type your e-mail address on the Web this way: Arnie at hotmail.com or ArnieREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com. Humans can look at either and figure out what to do; software -- so far -- is helpless"

Not tried emailing girls have you?

"What's wrong with your email address? It's just come back as undeliverable or something"

"What email address did you send it to?"

"ewhite NOSPAM (at) yahoo.com"