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British Spammer Gets 6 Years

Posted by Zonk on from the angry-little-black-hat dept.

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.

3 of 190 comments (clear)

  1. hmmm, SPAM? by macaulay805 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Out of all the other violations he had commited, why is Slashdot working the SPAM angle?

    For instance;
    A person arrested for hacking a website!
    And the details are;
    The person murdered everyone in the building, killed the world economy, and he hacked a website.

    Yet, Slashdot would glorify that the person was arrested for hacking a website.

  2. Flawed logic, TripMaster. by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your logic is faulty. There's not necessarily a connection between spammers and "real criminals", even if there is one in this case.

    If somebody who violates copyrights on occasion turns around and kills someone, that does not make all copyright violators murderers.

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    Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
  3. So he got 6 years, but was it for the spam? by CFD339 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He threatened people, threatened to bomb government buildings, etc. What exactly was the six years for then?

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