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Man May Have Sent 2 Billion Spam E-Mails
Drudge (AP) ^
| Sep 13, 7:52 AM (ET)
| MERAIAH FOLEY
Posted on 09/13/2006 6:01:31 AM PDT by Tim Slagle
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian man under investigation for illegal spamming sent more than 2 billion e-mails promoting Viagra in a year, an official said Wednesday.
Experts say that's a drop in the ocean compared to the number of spam e-mails sent globally each year, and the system he used probably wasn't very sophisticated.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority began investigating the man, whose identity was not immediately released, after receiving a tip-off from authorities in the Netherlands in May last year.
Danyel Molenaar, a project manager for the Dutch Independent Regulator of Post and Telecommunications, said the man had rented 35 servers for around 14,000 Australian dollars (US$10,493; euro8,256) each per month from a small Internet service provider in the Netherlands to carry out the alleged spam campaign.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: publicexecution; spam; stiffsentence
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I wish this guy an eternity in Hell, spent deleting Viagra® messages from his Inbox.
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:02:11 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Tim Slagle
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:02:35 AM PDT
by
Samwise
(All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
To: Tim Slagle
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:02:52 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
To: Tim Slagle
He needs to die slowly and painfully.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:03:22 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Tim Slagle
So I beat ya by a few minutes...we do have the same wish for that wanker, though!
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:03:53 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(9-11, 5 years later...NEVER forget!)
To: Tim Slagle
2 Billion spam served... 4 billion to go!
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:03:56 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Tim Slagle
Penalties for spamming in Australia range from 220,000 Australian dollars (US$164,765) per day for first-time corporate offenders to A$1.1 million (US$823,826) per day for repeat offenders.
Needs a stiffer penalty.
To: Tim Slagle
A slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow death would be appropriate.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:07:37 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(A wall first. A wall now.)
To: Tim Slagle
OMG OH NOES! I'm too stupid to buy anti-spam software, OH TEH NOES!
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:08:22 AM PDT
by
xrp
(Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
To: Tim Slagle
Took the words right out of my mouth. Unfortunately, there are thousands like him, and the for rent server farms as well.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:08:30 AM PDT
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: JRios1968
Yeah. This guy is REALLY violating a lot of peoples' rights, isn't he?
Society's priorities are way out of whack.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:09:20 AM PDT
by
xrp
(Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
To: Tim Slagle
Draw and quarter him, on Pay-Per-View.
Do one like him (spammer, virus disseminator, identity thief, etc) once a quarter, as a public lesson.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:09:59 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: Tim Slagle
You would wish someone go to hell for spam? That is hardcore.
To: Tim Slagle
An Australian man under investigation for illegal spamming sent more than 2 billion e-mails promoting Viagra
Damn, to think I spent the last two years blaming my wife. Guess I owe her an apology.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:12:29 AM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: Tim Slagle
For his sentence, he has to delete 2 billion spam e-mails without missing the one message that announces the date and time of his parole hearing.
To: Larry Lucido
LOL.
BTW, I rcv'd 1.5 billion of those 2 billion spams
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:14:14 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
To: Tim Slagle
...yes, and apparently he sent them all to me.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:14:18 AM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Tim Slagle
As much as I agree with the comments that he should be drawn and quartered, you have to wonder about the ecoomics. 35 servers x $10k/month x 12 month/year ~ $4 million/year. 2 billion spams x 1 purchase/100,000 spams = 20,000 purchases. 20,000 purchases x $10 profit/purchase = $200,000 profit.
Looks like a money loser. Can the hit rate be much higher or profit/sale much higher?
To: durasell
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:16:58 AM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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