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The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either
wattrlz writes "Apparently the current champion of v1*gr4 spamming solicited some of the wrong email boxes. Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands on method of system administration are staggering." Update: 10/12 15:28 GMT by Z : Good story. Unfortunately, probably a fake.
McAfee thinks so too http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/10/11/two-dead-spammers/
Original story is on
http://loonov.com/russian-viagra-and-penis-enlargement-spammer-murdered.htm#
Domain Name: LOONOV.COM
Registrar: ESTDOMAINS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.estdomains.com
Referral URL: http://www.estdomains.com/
Name Server: NS0.HQHOST.NET
Name Server: NS1.HQHOST.NET
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 11-oct-2007
Creation Date: 11-oct-2007
Expiration Date: 11-oct-2008
Fake hoax information link
http://taint.org/2007/10/11/203243a.html
Domain loonov.com registered Oct 11th... FAKE!!!!
Please post an update saying this story appears to be a fake.
Looks faked.
How sad.
according to this it seems that the story is fake
Roses are red, violets are blue, most poems rhyme, but this one doesn't...
I think you meant Ambrose Bierce wrote "HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers." From The Devil's Dictionary (via Google Books).
That murder had nothing to do with the victims spam activities:
http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7845&IBLOCK_ID=35
I strongly disagree. This is more than a nuisance. This is destroying the potential of the Internet. It's wasting peoples lives. If guy were doing the same door to door he would have been dead long ago. Next time, I hope they leave a DVD of the torture and televise it. Or as a previous post said -A truly just punishment would be to torture him continuously. I'll go with that. How many hundreds of hours have I spent fixing a family members' computer? Removing the Spam, the Spyware and so on. People doing this are criminals, they don't deserve to live.
Googled the guy's name in Russian - no spam- or even internet-related mentions.
I find it funny that all of us are so into this story and no one has bothered to verify it. The guy claims he heard the news on TV and decided to translate it for us. The thing is that if you speak Russian, and check out the TV channels, or the Russian news agencies - none of them mentions such a case. For instance, http://lenta.ru/internet/ is silent about it.
I must say this was a job well done by this bogus artist, he managed to spawn a classic slashdot dispute with many insightful posts, bravo! Well, maybe this will make spammers feel a bit uncomfortable...
Morale of the story: 10 thousand lemmings can be wrong.
The saddest poem
register is reporting this as a hoax. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/12/russian_spammer_murder/ tsk tsk tsk
i know not what weapons the next world war will be fought with, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones.