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"Spam King" Agrees to Stop Spamming For Now
Sandman writes "The AP is reporting that so called "Spam King" Sanford Wallace has agreed to stop spamming... at least temporarily until the FTC suit is settled" At best this is a precursor of things to come, and at worst it's a nice break.
I *need* to know Candy misses me!
a billion to go...
but he'll be back
Wasnt this just reported yesterday? But it was under the title.. going to stop sending spyware, for now?
It seems from the article that he's going to stop using spyware, not sending spam.
Where am I going to buy my Penis Enlargement pills now?!?!?
just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you
They can give restaining orders all day long, but the spyware, adware and other crap is still on many boxes still generating ads for him.
Some call me Howie Feltersnatch
I didn't vote for him!
Most likely, he's working out a way to offshore the whole operation into a shell corporation in the Bahamas, and will (again) laugh his way to the bank.
Infecting the net with spyware, choking the backbones with spam. Making his money in the sleazebag way he always does.
This doesn't change anything.
"Don't worry about the problems you have in mathematics, I assure you mine are much greater." - Einstein c.1919
Don't settle the suit. Drag it on forever.
Because we know there's no way he's passed off his lists and primary business to someone else, a partner or whatever, so that the revenue stream just gets transferred away from him while he's under investigation.
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
a. Spammers lie.
b. See "a."
Conclusion: Stop spamming as in stop spamming from US?
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Gotta love this:
u siness/2100-1023_3-220427.html
"I'm not spamming again," Wallace said in an interview with CNET News.com. "I am the most antispam person alive because of the trouble my old company got into."
Apparently he didn't mean it.Here's the full article: http://news.com.com/Is+the+king+of+spam+back+in+b
I think you're overreacting just a tad. Maybe the slashdot hive mind thinks it's alright, but I don't see how you could ever equate mass unsolicited e-mail being worth someone, anyone's, life.
I know I'll get modded down (AC, Karma is preciousss), but speaking as someone who was recently robbed, sure, I want financial restitution (I liked the first part of your post), but I don't think the hooligans who did it should pay with their life; and trust me, the burglary bugged me a lot more than the hundreds of spam I got that day.
spam king's promise not to spam is like promising not to send more emails after clicking the un-subcribe link for rolexes. >.
The Spam King will eventually be betrayed by his ex-best friend, Mr. Spam, and trapped under an avalanche of junk mail on forbidding Widow's Peak.
I ain't evil, I'm just good looking.
due to the karmic implications of the activities of spammers and spyware operators, asmodeus, mouthpiece of hell, would like to inform us that a new, technologically advanced circle of hell has formed recently. hell has said that over the course of its illustrious history, it has remained up-to-date with the various technological advances that its human fodder have created, and is happy to say hell is now no push over in the cyberspace department. just recently, hell's IT department was able to successfully woo and hire the BSD demon.
asmodeus, on behalf of himself, beelzebub, azazel and baal, would also like to thank spammers and spyware creators for their innovations. they have been having a lot of fun playing with the new gadgets and technological doodads in this new circle and thinking up well, devilish new uses for them. just yesterday baal and azazel, after a rousing game of gta: san andreas, quite proudly demonstrated their wonderful new DDoS nipple clamps and botnet dental drills. The BSD demon cackled and chortled and choked on a packet in appreciation.
the gang down there would also like to remind all spammers and spyware operators that this new circle of hell has amazing bandwidth capacity for eternal delivery of viagara and vioxx offers straight to the frontal cortex, representing a coup in the r&d department of the lost souls there, who will of course, never benefit from the ip capital of their hard work.
spammers and spyware operators, azazel reminds us, will find that a *warm* reception will be awaiting them when they arrive in this new technologically advanced circle of hell.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I can't talk about any of the other ISPs, but I was at Earthlink when they sued him. The restraining order prevented him from using our servers to relay his spam. That's all. Of course, now, the Earthlink servers don't allow relaying, so he can't do that anyway unless he had an account with them. (BTW, Earthlink also blocks outgoing port 25 to keep their customers from relaying through other servers.)
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Rule 1. Spammers lie.
Rule 2. If spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule 1.
Rule 3. Spammers are stupid.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
passthison.com would set your homepage in order to generate impressions and get more revenue. The homepage would give you anti-virus/trojan ads.
2 years and no mod points. Join reddit. Because openness is good.
I saw a 30-60% drop (depending on the day) over the holidays.
The holidays are over. Volume is right back up to ~1,500 rejects daily.
Here is the link to the complaint filed by FTC.
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The best part is the description of the tactics and messages used by the Spam king! Its stupid, but effective way to fool most of the surfers!
One advertisement mimics the "Notepad" feature of the IE web browser and displays a message stating:
If your NOTEPAD launched and is displaying this message. . . Then 'Spyware' programmers can ontrol applications on YOUR computer and it is URGENT that you download SPY WIPER immediately. Do not allow spyware programs to damage your insecure computer!! (See other window).
[Exhibit 1, as of August 30, 2004]
A separate advertisement causes the computer's CD-ROM tray to open and states:
FINAL WARNING ! !
If your cd-rom drive(s) open . .
You DESPERATELY NEED to rid your system of spyware pop-ups IMMEDIATELY!
Spyware programmers can control your computer hardware if you failed to protect your computer right at this moment!
I'm sure it won't be long until he moves to the Cayman Islands, buys a white suit, gains some pounds and answer a certain phonecall regarding one of his customer's transactions regarding enlargement pills.
Wallace: I'm sorry, I cannot divulge information about that customer's secret illegal account.
Oh crap. I shouldn't of said he was our customer.
Oh crap! I shouldn't of said it was a secret.
Oh crap! I certainly shouldn't of said it was illegal.
Ah.. it's too hot today.
According to the article, he just said he wouldn't infect anyone with spyware or send spam to anyone... *unless* they had ever visited any of his websites or if he had "prior business dealings" with them. From a spammer, "prior business dealings" probably means "are on my email spam target list somewhere".
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
The Internet Storm Centre's "Follow the Bouncing Malware" diary entries (written by Tom Liston) covers passthison.com (which belongs to Spamford). Quite a good read.
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part I
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-07-23
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part II
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-08-23
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part III
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-11-04
Following the Bouncing Malware: Part IV
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-11-24
No. see what happened is this. A large number of people recieved new computers as gifts for Christmas and unplugged their old computers. An army of zombies vanished in a single day.
Within a week the new machines were all infected and things returned to "normal".
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
Guys, I know spammers are not nice people, but *please* make sure you do not sign his business address (11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867. (extracted from the FTC complaint)) for any sweepstakes, printed catalogs, gay literature or any other thing that might overload his postal address.
After all, spammers have already expressed their discontent with this practice, and Im certain none of us would like to upset these outstanding individuals any further.
Again, that is 11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867.
My other OS is the MCP!