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The Family That Spams Together Stays Together

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-just-bizarre dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The Globe & Mail has a story about an Ontario, Canada man who is being sued, along with his father and brother, by Yahoo under the CAN-SPAM Act. The Yahoo suit claims that Eric Head, along with his father and brother, were sending out millions of spam emails per month, as well as compiling lists of email addresses to sell to other spammers. Eric's company, Gold Disk Canada Inc., gathered lists of email addresses and sold them for $29.99 for 100,000 email addresses on up to $1,599.99 for 10 million addresses."

14 of 196 comments (clear)

  1. Was it really worth it... by cs02rm0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I mean, we are talking Canadian dollars aren't we? :p

    1. Re:Was it really worth it... by PacoTaco · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not nice to joke about the size of someone's exchange rate. If you're not careful, some British guy will show up and starting making fun of you.

    2. Re:Was it really worth it... by Schemat1c · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not nice to joke about the size of someone's exchange rate. If you're not careful, some British guy will show up and starting making fun of you

      British man: Haw, you bloody Yanks! Our pound is worth more than your dollar. Bah haw, bah haw.

      1st American: What did that pasty face guy with bad teeth just say?

      2nd American: Don't mind him. He comes from some foggy little island country that still worships royalty. Now get into the Hummer 2, we have things to buy.

      --

      "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
  2. You know what they say... by hookedup · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spam doesnt fall far from the spam tree.

  3. Oh god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please let one of them be called 'Richard'...

  4. I wish natural selection works here.... by Viceice · · Score: 4, Funny

    because this is one set of genes I'm sure we all don't want in our genepool..

    "ewww.. Spammer DNA... Gross!"

    --
    Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
  5. You gotta make a living somehow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops! Look at that! I dropped a CD with 5,000 e-mail addresses! (Flash required)

  6. i feel cheap by netfall · · Score: 5, Funny

    wow... i never realized how cheap the addresses were. i had always hoped my address would be like worth $1. I guess I should have hoped for a penny for my address. I feel so used.

  7. Related to Askslashdot: A Family IT/Tech Business by DaRat · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if they posted a reply to the recent Ask Slashdot question about "A Family IT/Tech Business"?

  8. New offer! by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Funny

    NEARLY UNLIMITED EMAIL ADRESSES FOR FREE!

    Here's a small sample of our list!

    • *@localhost
    • *@127.0.0.1
    • *@127.0.0.2
    • *@127.0.0.3

    Order now! No satisfaction, NO REFUND!

    --
    Hate me!
  9. dee-luxe by neurocutie · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Eric's company, Gold Disk Canada Inc., gathered lists of email addresses and sold them for $29.99 for 100,000 email addresses on up to $1,599.99 for 10 million addresses."

    I'm kinda wondering whether my email addresses came in the cheapo $29.99 version, or if I qualified for the $1599.99 Deluxe package...
  10. Re:600 octillian spam emails per year. by DerPflanz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Euh, what do you want to say with that figure? You are multiplying the price of 10 million addresses with the total spam e-mail per year. That would give you:

    $/address * SPAM/Year

    Which resolves to something like dollarspam per addressyear. What the hell is THAT?

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    -- The Internet is a too slow way of doing things, you'd never do without it.
  11. The Head family by sudotcsh · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Yahoo suit claims that Eric Head, along with his father and brother...

    Please tell me that they're named Dick Head and Shit Head so I can know that I've been yelling the right names at my computer screen this whole time.

  12. Re:600 octillian, eh? by spincycle1953 · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Wow, that's a lot.That's equivalent to every single person on the planet receiving over 3 trillion spams per second.

    It's a relief to know I'm not the only one.

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    My other machine is a lever.