Massachusetts Drops Hammer on Spam Gang

karvind writes "According to story on BBC and Yahoo, the Massachusetts attorney general has filed a lawsuit against one of the world's biggest spam gangs. An emergency court order granted under the suit should see the network of websites the spammers ran shut down. Attorney General Thomas Reilly's civil complaint against alleged ringleader Leo Kuvayev and six other people associated with 2K Services Ltd. and Ecash Pay Ltd. Offered for sale on the websites were pornography, pills, pirated software and fake fancy watches."

Comments

So who will win the PR war

[peragrin]

New York's Attoreny General

or

Massachusetts attorney general?

Both are making huge names for themselves by fighting the fights no one else wants to touch.

No joke

[superpulpsicle]

My spam count has gone from "insane" to "alot". I guess we haven't arrested enough.

Re:No joke

[Anonymous Coward]

So when it gets down to "alittle" you'll be ok?

Gang... :)

[mreed911]

"Internet Spam Gang"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! What's their hand sign? Do they go around flashing their USB drive covers to each other to represent their set? Do they have license plates with their IP subnets? Yeah, boyee!

Re:Gang... :)

[AnalogDiehard]

What's their hand sign? Do they go around flashing their USB drive covers to each other to represent their set? Do they have license plates with their IP subnets? Yeah, boyee!

They wear Hormel T-shirts and viking helmets.

If they're shut down for good.....

[spidergoat2]

...where will I do my christmas shopping?

Go get 'em!

[mwood]

"Offered for sale on the websites were pornography, pills, pirated software and fake fancy watches."

Wow, that's 98% of my daily home email even *after* filtering. [applause]

(checks e-mail)

[elhaf]

Nope, still all spammy.

Re:Nice!

[Marko DeBeeste]

MIT uses the death penality only in those cases related to CalTech.

Re:They have been shutdown pending the outcome...

[Tenebrous]

I don't see the hammer falling either. According to our experts, "Offered for sale on the websites were pornography, pills, pirated software and fake fancy watches."

Well, let's see. If the porn is against the law, why isn't the MA atty. general obtaining a court order to shut down the retailer, wholesale distributor and producer? Then there's pills, of no specified type. Pirated software is Micro$oft's problem. Let Gates hire a few leg breakers and handle it.

But those fake fancy watches, now... I had one of those once. I thought it was a Rolex until my wrist turned green. Then I discovered the fake fancy watch wouldn't keep time correctly, so I missed class again. Then my girl friend saw that I was wearing a fake fancy watch instead of a real fancy watch and denounced me as a cheapskate redneck with no class and left me for a delivery boy, and my pickup truck got repossessed, and my Mom hates me, and my dog bit me on the leg, and...

well, I've had enough of those fake fancy watches. They're dangerous!

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Re:now if only the Mass Attorney General

[pjrc]

..... might reveal this to be an easier way of filling the state's coffers, through lawsuits.

I hear there's also lots of easy money to be made in persuing people who have monetary judgements against them by the courts, but skip flee, disappear, change identies, and presumably set up shop again to continue their misguided deeds.

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