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"Nigerian" Spammer Arrested
Roger_Wilco writes "According to The Globe and Mail, a "Nigerian" spammer has been
charged with with first-degree attempted larceny. Hopefully we'll get a few less of that spam now."
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You'd think the spammers would be more suspicious of someone that seemed so eager to give them her money. With the rate of reply to these things so low, the spammers might figure that the people who do actually bite are actually trying to shut them down. Ah well...we can dream, can't we?
"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth." - George Carlin
we had a war on drugs. there are still drugs. we had a war on terrorism. didn't stop that either. why should a war on spam fare any better?
the problem with all these wars is that they are supply-side. as long as there is a demand, there were will be a supplier. fine the suppliers, arrest the suppliers... hell, kill them even. but while there still exist the droves of doe-eyed sheep (mix those metaphors!) who are willing to buy "spam-vertized" goods and services, there will be spammers.
this arrest will in the long and medium term acheive nothing.
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Sure you can mod this funny, but when a country has a forign policy where the CIA assasinates elected leaders and was funding dictators and terrorists for the last 50 years, yes, I think you're asking for it.