Massachusetts Drops Hammer on Spam Gang

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 12, 2005 @03:47AM from the pork-profiteers dept.

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."

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Re:I know people who buy things from Spam by e40 · 2005-05-12 06:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So true, so true. It happened in a big way in the last US Presidential election. No WMDs? Filter out. Economy in the dumper (though appear to come out)? Filter out. The Iraq war didn't make us safer? Filter out. We could go on and on...