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British Spammer Gets 6 Years
Killjoy_NL writes "The BBC tells us that a 23 year old spammer has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for sending spam and other illegal activities." From the article: "He had offered thousands of e-mail and website names when he had no right. And when victims complained, he threatened to destroy their internet systems by sending millions of spam e-mails. Peterborough Crown Court heard he also threatened to fire-bomb the headquarters of the county's trading standards department and petrol-bomb his local police headquarters. When internet policing group Nominet posted warnings about his activities, he responded by saying he would attack its servers." ZDNet has coverage as well.
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> Yes, he was a spammer but that's not what he was sentenced for.
Yes, but it sounds like he thre@tened to ki1l and b1ackmai1 so many people that the threats themselves qualified as spam :-)
Now hopefully he'll know the feeling of having unwanted items shoved into his inbox. Or outbox, depending upon your view of that type of thing....
Wouldn't a death threat be "unsolicited?"
Okay, at least his dad. According to the BBC article,
Francis-Macrae, who made more than £100,000 per week from the scam, spent £28,000 on designer clothes and on learning to fly helicopters
If any of my offspring are over 18 and wandering around the house in an outfit that's more than my mortgage payment, they best get packing - quickly. Oh, and they need to get that helicopter out of the front yard - it's murder on the azaleas.
Somebody pointed this out last time Slashdot posted this story. But hey, if Slashdot can post misleading stories twice, we can post corrections twice, right?
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Yours Sincerely, Michael.
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Now mods, I may be redundant but my twin is Funny.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
If someone has a good sense of humour they should send his cellmate a 6 year supply of the "generic viagra". :)
It's a technical term. Like Shittery.
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Yuck! Helicopters. He deserves far more. I'm just glad he hasn't made himself a real part of the aviation community! My theory on helicopters: They can't really fly, they're just so ugly, the Earth repels them.
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At first glance you think "6 years for spam...damn that's harsh". Actually, as far as I'm concerned there's only one fit punishment for a spammer: 1) Nail his genitalia to a tree. 2) Hand him a butter knife. 3) Set the tree on fire. 4) If he survives step 3, shoot him. (No sense in risking re-offence!) Seriously, these people take the pristine fountain of communication that is e-mail and, with malice of forethought, piss in it. Six years is too light a sentence for a prolific spammer.
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