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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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.
'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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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 ;-)
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"
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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