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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."
It's nice to see some spammers getting sued rather than some 12 year old girl who downloads MP3s...
This is nice but as long as there is money to made sending spam there will be plenty of border-line companies jumping into the gap to replace others taken down. This isn't going to end until we go after the companies selling their products through the spammers.
This really isn't going to do anything. Spam sites get shut down all the time and spammers have other servers lined up to move to at a moments notice. They're probably back up and operating at a new site already.
Good Lord, who crapped in your cheerios this morning? A couple notes to your tirade:
1) Counterfeit versions of prescription drugs != drugs from Canada; that should be fairly obvious.
2) Clicking on a link that says it will take you to one thing, then takes you to another is most certainly doing something "unwittingly". Whether or not that person is a nitwit is irrelevant.
3) I would absolutely classify shutting down a spam gangs ring of websites as "bringing the hammer down". They are no longer operational, and are in court. The only thing left to do is to convict them and make them pay monetary damages.
Sheesh, mellow out, you should be happy you might actually start getting less spam.