First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming

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First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 22, 2005 @07:26AM from the it's-like-spam-but-edible dept.

prostoalex writes "U.S. federal authorities have conducted the first arrest for spimming. Eighteen-year-old Anthony Greco was arrested for sending spam to instant messenger users of MySpace.com." From the article: "Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn't sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service."

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Gah. "Spimming"? by American+AC+in+Paris · 2005-02-22 07:30 · Score: 5, Funny

...do we really need to go mashing old new words into new new words for every little 'Net-related derivation out there?
It's stupidiotic, and it's getting irritannoying.

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Dangerous MIPS code? by Palshife · 2005-02-22 07:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Wait, simulating MIPS assembly code is ILLEGAL?

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Re:You mean to tell me by Hellasboy · 2005-02-22 07:36 · Score: 5, Funny

"A Moose wants my social security number? Sounds fair to me." -Simpsons 2005.02.20 (finally a good one)

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Best part: by Saint+Aardvark · 2005-02-22 07:40 · Score: 5, Funny

He was arrested upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport last Wednesday....Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn't sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service. Greco believed he was flying to Los Angeles to cement that agreement with MySpace President Tom Anderson.
h5<>0r says: U R t0taLLY P0Wn3D unL355 u b0W t0 mY L33+ XK1LL5!
tanderson says: Okay. But you have to show up to sign an agreement.
tanderson says: LOL
h5<>0r says: 5W33+!1!!1 j00 r0X0R!
h5<>0r says: w51+! y u l5ff1Ng @ me?
tanderson says: What?
tanderson says: Sorry, just remembering a Seinfeld episode I saw last night
h5<>0r says: 0
h5<>0r says: y3h t5t s00p n5Z1's funny
h5<>0r says: 50, 1 sh0 uP on m0nd5y, OKBYU?
tanderson says: Yeah, that's great
tanderson says: You want a limo?
h5<>0r says: 0 b0y r1LLY!!?!11?/
h5<>0r says: U b3+!
tanderson says: Sucker
h5<>0r says: wa+?????????
tanderson says: Sorry
tanderson says: My granddaughter's here
tanderson says: I was just offering her some candy
h5<>0r says: 0h y5h candy's good
h5<>0r says: w1ll 1 G3t b3nif3+ts/!??!

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Re:I'm not normally a spelling Nazi... by NarrMaster · 2005-02-22 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny

but come on now, how frelling hard is it to spell "spamming"?

How fucking hard is it to spell "fucking"?

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Re:is spam a USA society problem ? by deft · 2005-02-22 07:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Can someone please put the parent on the short list for torture; I'm too busy eating apple pie, bombing brown people, and devolving society right now.

Thanks a bunch.

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Re:Gah. "Spimming"? by nacturation · 2005-02-22 07:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Spam over IRC - Spirm.

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