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First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. I'm not normally a reading Nazi... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But how fucking hard is it to read the FUCKING SUMMARY? I know people are busy busy busy watching their two TiVos (and such quality programming too), but really...