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Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison
Bobfrankly1 writes "The FBI, IRS, and the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are helping the US Marshals search for escaped 'Spam King' Edward 'Eddie' Davidson. He apparently jumped in a car with his wife, changed clothes at home, and hasn't been seen since." Update: 07/24 22:20 GMT by T : It seems that Davidson has been found, victim of a murder-suicide which also left two others dead.
If only there was some way to send an email to everybody in the world with this information.
;-)
The one-armed man did it!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Here's the FBI press release.
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
I knew they were hurting for ideas but this is rediculous!
He's probably headed for the nearest datacenter to unleash an apocalyptic deluge of spam. Head for the hills! It's the end I tell you!
I thought that changing clothes only worked if your wanted level was 2 stars.
Really, really bad move. Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison. It is really, really hard in today's day and age to avoid being captured, even with a lot of money if you want to live at some decent level. His best bet I think is to go to a foreign country where he could blend in, and live inconspicuously.
Even in some place like Mexico he would be quite a stand out if he flashed cash, and in the US you'd ultimately fall temptation to going to the local drugstore and risk being nabbed on camera. Any lawyers know if there are any countries which would absolutely refuse extradition? If so, he would still need to 1) get there and 2) transfer enough money to survive, and much more if he couldn't work.
Interestingly enough, I think the next play depends on how many resources the US government will put into capturing him and raising awareness among people. A stint on "Dateline" or widely watched / read program would help any possible acquaintances turn him in.
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So he really regrets for the mess he's done? There are better ways to apologize than to escape prison!
Why not actually have criminals go to prison?
On the upside, I'm pretty sure it's legal to shoot escaped convicts.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Who the hell runs from a 2 year bid at a club fed?
He got tired of Bart Simpson making him write "I will not send out spam email again." on the chalkboard again and again.
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
Looks like the police spam blocker wasn't configured properly :(
He's going to totally ruin the honor system for everyone else.
I wonder if they will start taking this more seriously and treating these people like criminals. I mean really...guy steals some property and can get years in a place a little more harsh than this dorm style prison. This guy stole bandwidth, and while it is an intangible thing, ultimately the total cost of his crap cost people FAR more than the value of the crap you could carry out of a pawn shop. I vote send his ass to a real prison.
From the comments from the article (because I know most of you won't read it, and I'm not going to take credit for it). "One can only hope his punishment will be unsolicited male."
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
he had 21 months for "spam". when they catch him, he'll face new charges for breaking out of prison. in addition, "When they were leaving, he forced her in the car" is that kidnapping? from minimum security "dormitories" to something a little rougher i imagine. bad move
I for one welcome our new king of penis enlargement overlord.
In real jail, your inbox is crammed full of unsolicited male.
He had a 21 month sentence in a minimum security work camp a.k.a "Club Fed". Now he gets an automatic 10 years added on for escaping and he'll be doing it in maximum security "Pound me in the ass" prison with the real bad dudes. This guy really isn't very bright.
I mean with all that money the Nigerian Prince has, I'm sure he can spare a room for Spam King.
Dear Batman,
You protected Gotham from the personification of fear, the Scarecrow.
You protected Gotham from the personification of chaos, the Joker.
Now a new threat has arisen.
Your people need you now, more than ever for the personification of annoyance, irritation and aggravation has escaped his just imprisonment, the Spam King!
While I know how adverse you are to taking a life even in the most dire circumstances, in this instance I believe I speak for everyone and say that this man is a threat to sanity itself. So, should he threaten innocents with p3n1s en1argm3n7 or heirs to Zimbabwean fortunes, we'll understand if you have no choice but to drop him off of a building or something. Pummeling him to death would be acceptable too.
Since when did we actually start prosecuting and jailing people for spam? Was he actually caught under the (you)-CAN-SPAM act? Or did he go down like Al Capone, caught for income tax evasion instead?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Thanks internet tough guy!
Or do you talk to people like that in real life too?
Be on the lookout for a man with a large penis and breasts, lots of mortgages, sexy naked teens, and a bottle of v1@grA. He was last seen with the ex-Minister of Finance for Nigeria, Dr Mugotumbe.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
It's not like this guy got together with his fellow inmates and dug three tunnels named "Tom", "Dick" and "Harry", or sewed civilian clothes from blankets dyed in pen ink. This guy didn't even have a stealth chopper land in the prison courtyard to whisk him to freedom, or have a small mercenary force sieze the prison and take him out by force. No - this guy gets in a car with his wife, drives off and changes into a fresh set of civvies. I wonder if the prison officials gave him $20.00 as he left the prison, or considered giving him a suit of clothes themselves?
Why? Because now, when he gets caught, he will NOT go back to 'club fed', but will go back to at least medium, and probably maxamum security prison, where the really bad boys are held.
And I'm sure when he's there, locked up late at night with 'tiny', that he's going to regret sending those herbal Viagra and penis enlargement emails.
Apparently it's just Women & people who appreciate them he doesn't like.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Soon to be crammed full of unsolicited MALE. Once they catch him and send him off to REAL prison!
What a maroon! He get's sent to the country club you aren't allowed to leave for a less than 2 year vacation and he ESCAPES? He's gonna get EXACTLY what he deserves now.
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Dear Spam Recipient, I am the Spam King, and I have hidden 200 million dollars ($200,000,000) in a secret location in the USA. Since I have escaped from the prison and left the country to work for the Russian Mafia , I am not in a position to recover the money from that location. If you will help me recover my money, I will give you 25% of it. Please contact me at ivan@the_terrible.mafia.ru
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
1. Have Wife (sic) drive up to your cell
2. Jump in wife's car
3. ????
4. Get Away! (Profit?)
Just put on a Whitey Bulger disguise. They'll never catch him.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I heard that he is about to recieve eleventy jillion dollars from a Nigerian prince.
Nothing quite as funny as gay prison rape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp
This describes the one in Nevada. (I couldn't find the one in CO)
Inmates, who dress in tan shirts and pants, may participate in a work program on Nellis AFB. The inmates typically perform janitorial services, cleaning floors, restrooms, and emptying trash from office buildings around the base. They also perform groundskeeping, and clean the base bowling alley. Each workcenter that uses inmate labor must assign an NCO or officer to monitor and direct the work throughout the day. These monitors receive a card after training (a video and lecture given by the correctional officers). The card authorizes monitors to transport the prisoners with them each morning (most weekdays) to their workcenters. Inmates are not allowed to leave the base to perform work. Inmates often say the work relieves the boredom they would otherwise face at the prison camp. The program saves taxpayers money that would otherwise be spent on contracted services or longer/less productive work hours by military personnel.
And this is about the Women's one in WV:
The camp comprises 105 acres (425,000 mÂ) of rolling hills. While there are no metal fences surrounding the camp, prisoners have schedules and must work. Free time is spent playing volleyball, softball or tennis.
Most of the inmates at FPC Alderson have been convicted of non-violent or white-collar crime. They sleep in bunk beds in dormitories or in cottages.
Expect him to talk tough to you too since Internet should be capitalized. (douchebag)
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Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
You're allowed to shoot escaped convicts on sight, right?
A clever idiot. But not intelligent in the Socratic definition of the term, which is to say, long-term intelligence, to live a long and contented life. Wisdom, damn it.
I mean, he made his fortune by targeting and flooding our homes and offices, via our inboxes, with something everybody detests, and he was real good at it, too.
This man made a conscious decision to become a lifelong pariah. Clever, yes, intelligent, no.
So it shouldn't be too surprising that he continues this pattern by not paying his dues in minimum security, choosing to become a much more serious target for the law for the rest of his life.
There is not a particle of common sense in this man's mind. The asshole acts like an identity thief.
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I think you're thinking of Digg ...
If only there was some way to Digg your comment, this wonderful circle of justice would be complete.
--- He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. ---
not if he's leaving the country, but what country would be willing to harbor him? I hear nigeria is nice this time of year.
This is more sad than funny, I know many Asperger/grammar Nazi's who have no qualms about being this rude in real life.
I suggest giving them pity rather than ridicule. They aren't even bright enough to figure out that grammar really doesn't matter in the big picture, at least vs. communicating with some manners.
As long as you are willing to foot the entire bill for increasing the level of security, I'm all for it.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Digg readers aren't old enough to get married in most states and countries.
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Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
Trust me, you do not want to be someone's "wife" in FPMITA Prison.
Nonaggression works!
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera, if not an actual Deity. Capitalization is required.
I love my wife dearly. I really do.
But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings, it's very clear that you're either unmarried or a newlywed. If you're comparing them to immensely powerful beings whose will dictates all that happens around them with no regard to the consequences and around whom all within their realm must quiver before and do their bidding or fear their wrath, I suspect you've been over to my place to visit.
[I'm kidding - she's really sweet. If you're reading this, Hon, it was a joke. Really. OK... I'll pull out the couch...]
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
Nope.
Also, I'm more interested in there being a Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and why they think a geek like Edward Davidson is really a danger to the public.
Your ad here.
I live with my dad, fag. He's been known to masquerade as a women though.
Here we go again.
Your ad here.
On the Denver FBI's page for the escape, the picture of Davidson is a dead link. (There are press photos, but a Government picture can be put into Wikipedia.) It's embarrassing for the FBI to issue a wanted notice for a prison break with no picture.
The Denver FBI office doesn't seem to have a contact e-mail address.
But if you're equating wives to deities in the sense that they're mystical infallible ideal beings
Is it odd that I read "inflatable" rather than infallible?
Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison.
Contrary to popular Internet Wisdom(R), you are much more likely to get raped in a state prison than a federal one. Most sex-related crimes (rape, sexual assault, molestation, indecent exposure) are state crimes, not federal ones and so the vast majority of these wonderful people go to state prison. Similarly, most violent offenses are state, not federal.
To make it concrete, >50% of the population of state prisons were in for a violent offense versus 12% in the federal population. Roughly 12% of state prisoners are in for rape or other violent sexual assault, compared to basically 0% in the federal system. Statistics on rapes in the various system likewise bolsters the conclusion: don't get sent to state-pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
References:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf (!PDF!)
In Soviet Russia prison, male spams you!
oO0Oo
"In real jail, your inbox is crammed with unsolicited male".
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=50057&messageID=938515&start=0
These aren't state-sanctioned. At all. The ass-holes (pun intended), who "sanction" it are the prison guards — represented and defended by very powerful trade-union, whom even the toughest politicians are wary of.
Now cue-in the union-apologists, who go as far as claim credit for weekends for the unions (which existed, apparently, when Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays became holy days for different religions), and you have a complete picture.
Compared to what these pigs do to civilian fellow Americans, the much-derided Guantanamo, where Military is holding enemy combatants, is, indeed, more like a piece of Caribbean paradise...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Why exactly does what Wired decides to do make it applicable to the rest of us?
Internet = the whole enchilada - the "cloud", if you will.
internet = any group of networks
"Little is much when little you need."
Wired as a source. How far my beloved /. has fallen.
Here on Slashdot, a Wife is at the very least a mythical creature like a Gorgon or a Chimera
Hey, even mythical creatures can have problems relating to the fairer sex.
It feels like you're not telling the whole story -- what did she possesses and how much and in what circumstances?
In even the harshest states, simple possession of small use quantities of even felony-level drugs doesn't result in maximum security prison time simply because there are too many people being caught committing the crimes and even our idiotic justice system has recognized to some extent that addiction and dependency are real issues.
Only 3-strikes offenders, non-personal-use quantities or possession during the commission of a felony end up adding up to real prison time. The federal system is worse due to mandatory minimums (which, IIRC, they recently made harder to impose).
I have heard of (usually) women getting burned on conspiracy beefs due to boyfriends/husbands/fathers/brothers being involved and the women being passively complicit.
So what actually happened to her that Illinois wanted to spend $40k a year to house her?
Did you miss the part where I said that I make rape jokes? :)
It's not about lightening up - jokes are perfectly fine. The cultural attitude of behind them is not.
Everything is a joking matter - but some things we should be laughing at so we don't cry, not because we think it's slapstick.
I make the point about this because I don't think most people consider male rape a real social problem... it's just funny. Whereas a girl getting raped, that's serious business.
I guess I say it's the difference between making Pollack or Nigger jokes tongue in cheek and actually being racist. The jokes are fine - meaning them isn't.
Take a look at the FBI's top10 most wanted list. Other than Bin Laden, most of those guys have been on the run for 3+ years without any cash reserves. You can bet this guy has millions hidden and a boat somewhere. It's also not difficult to your change your appearance drastically at which point your only risk of being caught is usually fingerprints or an unrelated offense.
I'd be surprised if he was recaptured soon. Typically if you aren't recaptured within a week then it's usually years later. So I guess we'll see.
I was particularly astonished by the photo of this guy that they included in the story. Good heavens, he's guilty of sending out too many unwanted e-mails...yes, yes, I know, penny stock scams, yada-yada...
But based on that mug shot, I would think was guilty of making Spam (the meat) out of his victims.
Is this what I have to look forward to in my IT career? To end up looking like Jeffrey Dahmer?
Joe Dougherty, Florida, USA
The words I thought I brought, I left behind. So, never mind.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- A man, woman and toddler were shot to death and a teenage girl was wounded outside a home near Bennett Thursday in what an investigator called a "horrific" scene. Neighbors told The Denver Post that the man was 'Spam King' Edward "Eddie" Davidson and his family. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said another infant appeared to be unharmed in the shooting.
-- the opinions stated above aren't those of my employer. in fact, they're probably not even my own. you know what, ju
That's IT? What a fucking loser. He should have done world a favor and killed himself in jail. Saved taxpayers money on a manhunt and left his family alone.
Missing 'spam king' kills self, family
By Kieran Nicholson, Howard Pankratz and Carlos Illescas
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 07/24/2008 04:52:57 PM MDT
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9985333
BENNETT -- Neighbors say the dead man, woman and toddler found near Bennett are the missing "spam king" and his family.
The shootings took place in the 42000 block of East Arkansas Place about 11:15 a.m. today, and the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said a man, woman and 3-year-old girl were dead.
A neighbor who did not want to be named said the man who was suspected of killing himself and the others was Eddie Davidson, who walked away from a minium-security prison camp in Florence earlier this week. He said Davidson and his family used to live in the house where they died.
The neighbor said the Davidson family -- known in Bennett as the Hills -- "pretty much stayed to themselves."
The neighbor knew
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Davidson worked in computers but not exactly what he did until he was sent to prison in April for 21 months after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and falsifying information in e-mail pitches for low-cost, high risk penny stocks.
Davidson's Bennett-based business, Power Promoters, sent hundreds of thousands of unsolicited sales pitches to e-mail addresses around the world, selling a variety of products.
Court filings showed that Davidson's spam operation grossed about $3.5 million between 2003 and 2006.
The Sheriff's Office would not confirm the identities of the victims, saying the coroner had not yet notified family members.
Arapahoe County Undersheriff Mark Campbell said this afternoon that the bodies of a man and a woman were found in a driveway at the home outside a silver SUV. The man's body was beside the driver's door, and the woman's near the passenger side.
A boy, about 7 months old, was found unharmed in a car seat in the SUV, Campbell said.
The 3-year-old girl was found dead in the vehicle.
Federal officials confirmed that FBI agents and U.S. Marshals are assisting Arapahoe County officials on the scene.
A teenage girl, who was shot in the neck, fled to a neighbor's home, the Sheriff's Office said.
A handgun was found at the scene, Campbell said.
The teenager was taken to University Hospital for treatment, and the infant to Children's Hospital, according to the Bennett Fire Protection District.
Bob Cambron lives about a half-mile away.
He said he was working in the yard when he heard gunshots, carried on the wind.
"Immediately after the shots, there was intense screaming," Cambron said.
He drove to the house right away.
"I didn't have any idea what I was driving into," he said. "I just saw the vehicle in the driveway with bodies."
He said he was reluctant to get close "because I didn't want to be the next victim."
He said a neighbor who called 911 also helped the teenage gunshot victim.
According to neighbors, the home where the shooting occurred is about 8 years old and sits on a 35-acre parcel.
"It is a very nice home, two-story yellow, about 4,000 square feet," said neighbor Deborah Haines. The owners had horses and a barn.
Both Haines and another neighbor, Ted Schwarz, said that the current residents were new to the area, having moved in about six to 10 months ago.
Both said their new neighbor was congenial.
"He was a really nice fellow," said Schwarz. "He was out there helping dig out during the snows. The wind blows out here, and we get out the tractors to clear the roads of snow. He also helped mow the ditches."
Schwarz, who is retired, said that the area is normally very quiet.
The worst thing to happen out there, he said, was when somebody -- probably kids -- knocked down every one of the 53 mailboxes of the 53 homeowners living in the area.
"This is something really shocking," said Schwarz.
Haines said she never heard any shots and that her first indication of something being wrong was when she heard a lot of traffic on the road outside her house.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
Why do cowards always have to kill their families too? I hope this gutless bastard roasts in hell!
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wow, i'm disappointed in slashdot. 2 hours since the posting that this guy was a victim of a murder-suicide and not a single post acknowledging it.
i mean, i hate spam, but i'm not about to wish the do-er of the deed dead.
Cue the 400 posts arguing whether or not "Internet" should be capitalized.
1 Internet = 8 internets
Looks like it works as advertised, after all
Davidson wasn't the "victim" of a murder-suicide. He was the perpetrator of a murder-suicide. AKA, the murderer.