100k to rat out spammers
 

fyi i dont email anymore
so dont even think about it

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tc_spam_bounty

WASHINGTON - What would it take to get someone to turn in one of those spammers who send millions of unwanted e-mails? At least $100,000, the Federal Trade Commission figures.

Six-figure incentives are the only way to persuade people to disclose the identity of co-workers, friends and others they know are responsible for flooding online mailboxes with unsolicited pitches for prescription drugs, weight loss plans and other products, according to an agency report Thursday.

I was reading articles on this stuff recently, If spammers think it's just a slap on the wrist, they are completely wrong. The government is making examples of people, the states is a fucked up country, Many people just dont realize that lots of "spammers" are now in jail serving over 10 years.

:1orglaugh Wow... 100k... hmm who do I know that spams... :1orglaugh

they should cut off the hands at the wrist of anyone that spams. :ak47:

that or give me the location where they live, and i'll gladly go raid their ranch killing their women and raping their chickens

im going to turn myself in to collect that 100k reward :1orglaugh

if it was lik 500k i would have turned myself in.

no wait... doh!

you just want to get your hands on those chickens dont ya :1orglaugh

I'm going to be one loaded bastard.

Oh wait... they probaly already went through GFY. Darn it!

spyware fuckers should be thrown in jail and forced to swallow the key, then shit the key into the toilet and have to flush their life away.

Rape someone - 5 years
Kill someone - 6 years
Spam someone - 10 years

Makes perfect sense

nice

Then GFY would be a quiet place. :Graucho

Doesn't it. And a lot of those that rape and kill get out of prison and do it again.

I found this interesting as well in the article

". For example, the FBI (news - web sites) pays $50,000 for tips leading to the arrests of most of its top 10 fugitives. "

50k for a Top 10 fugitive but 100-250k for a spammer.

I see where our priorities lie. What the fuck is this country coming to.

i will rat out CAHEK. whos with me

:1orglaugh

10 years seems a little harsh for some email doesn't it? Spamming is wrong, but 10 years?

Get drunk and kill someone on the highway and you'll spend less time in jail typically in the US.

Testimony of Assistant Director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Jana Monroe
before the
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
May 20, 2004
CAN-SPAM Act Congressional Testimony


Introductory Statement:

Good morning Chairman McCain, and other members of the Committee. On behalf of the FBI, I would like to thank you for this opportunity to address the FBI's role in anti-spam initiatives.

Cyber crime, in its many forms, continues to receive priority attention from the FBI. A paramount objective of the Cyber Division has been to arm field investigators with the necessary resources to identify and combat evolving cyber crime matters. Over the past 18 months, the FBI has supported the establishment of more than 50 multi-jurisdictional task forces nationwide. Partnerships with federal, state, and local law enforcement are vital to the success of these teams, because cyber crime, by its nature, does not respect jurisdictional boundaries and we need to leverage existing resources to effectively and efficiently fight cybercrime.

In addition to law enforcement partnerships, another prime objective of the FBI's Cyber Division is to establish active partnerships with subject matter experts from the private sector. Such experts are often better equipped to identify cyber crimes at their earliest stages. Early identification of cyber crimes is an absolute must, and directly correlates to ultimate successes in investigating and prosecuting cyber criminals.

In keeping with this approach, and even before passage of the CAN-SPAM Act by Congress, the FBI had begun work in a Public/Private Alliance to specifically target the growing spam problem. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), working in coordination with industry, developed "SLAM-Spam," an initiative that began operation last fall. This initiative targets significant criminal spammers, as well as companies and individuals that use spammers and their techniques to market their products. It also investigates the techniques and tools used by spammers to expand their targeted audience, to circumvent filters and other countermeasures implemented by consumers and industry, and to defraud customers with misrepresented or non-existent products.

Project SLAM-Spam:

In response to the growing number of complaints it was receiving about fraudulent and pornographic spam, the Internet Crime Complaint Center began development of a project to address the spam problem. The Center has developed extensive experience in taking complaints relating to all types of crime occurring over the Internet, analyzing them for significant patterns, and then referring appropriate case leads out to the field for further investigation. The IC3 receives more than 17,000 complaints every month from consumers alone, and additionally receives a growing volume of referrals from key e-commerce stakeholders. The use of spam is a substantial component of these schemes, which includes reports of identity theft schemes, fraudulent pitches and "get rich quick" schemes, and unwanted pornography. Currently, over 25 percent of all complaints to the IC3 involve some use of spam electronic mail.

To develop the project, the IC3 coordinated with industry Subject Matter Experts and representatives of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), which have provided essential expertise and resources to the project. The IC3 has also consulted with the Federal Trade Commission, which has several years of working with consumers on the spam problem. This project has also identified a significant list of the methods used by subjects to advance their individual schemes. I will describe some of the efforts and summarize the primary accomplishments of this project over the past six months, and project future accomplishments, consistent with the overall project plan. This include a national initiative in which suitable cases developed or advanced through this project, will be highlighted as part of our overall effort against those who have committed criminal and civil violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.

The first several months of the project focused on building support structures to support the initiative. The IC3 identified and consulted with Subject Matter Experts from Internet Service Providers, anti-spam organizations, and other groups. They defined responsibilities of participants, and began weekly strategy meetings to ensure that progress and priorities were consistent and clear. Experts developed communications channels and databases to exchange information quickly and robustly among the experts in the alliance. Finally, a list of potential subjects was developed by analysts from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and compared against existing IC3 referrals to determine if law enforcement had already initiated investigations of subjects, and if those investigations were making progress.

After the effective date of the CAN-SPAM Act, the IC3 helped organize and participated in three regional training conferences on a number of subjects relating to cybercrime. At these conferences, representatives of the FBI and Department of Justice gave presentations designed to familiarize agents specializing in cyber crime with the SLAM-Spam initiative, the techniques used by spammers to falsify their identity, and the additional criminal prohibitions in the CAN-SPAM Act.

Identifying the most significant subjects involved in criminal spam scenarios is a prime objective of the SLAM-Spam initiative. Equally significant has been developing those cases so that they can be further investigated and prosecuted by field offices, cyber task forces, and United States Attorneys' Offices around the United States. Accordingly, while a growing number of Internet crime schemes use spam to target larger pools of victims, the Cyber Division's task force capabilities have increased as well. Cyber Crime squads in our field divisions are trained in quickly investigating computer intrusions and virus attacks. When they are available, these resources can also be used to investigate the source of unwanted fraudulent and pornographic spam.
Project SLAM-Spam is on course and on schedule to achieve substantial results against individuals and organizations that are complicit in criminal (and potentially civil) schemes where spam is used. As a result of these activities, more than 20 Cyber Task Forces are actively pursuing criminal and in some cases joint civil proceedings against subjects identified to date. We expect that this number will continue to rise, as successful actions are brought under this act.

We are also improving our cooperation with the FTC, State Attorneys General, and industry partners, because we understand that criminal enforcement is only one aspect of the fight against spam. While we cannot share every detail of ongoing criminal investigations, we can and will share our knowledge about tools and techniques used by spammers, their current primary targets of opportunity, and the types of schemes they are favoring.

No fucking shit! It's always about them not getting a piece of the action IMO. Just like it is with drugs, dealers tend to do more time then rapist and murderers. All about the the $.

who dont spam? old tgp people?

Dont bother, I just did it for you. Thanks for the tip though!

its all optin, i swear :1orglaugh

well there goes 1/2 of gfy

yea :1orglaugh

I'd turn in a spammer for a couple of car wash tokens.

better think what you say first

we have crackheads for politicians.. I mean after all everyone knows spammers are way worse than murders and rapists.

spam sucks.

cant eat that canned meat.

Chicken fucker:1orglaugh

I hope none of you are on my buddy list. I'll be turning it over to the authorities soon enough.
I'm rich bitch :Graucho

I get junk snail mail daily why the fuck don't these fuckers get fucked with....I see spam in the news paper I see spam on t.v it's a spamming world.....

:1orglaugh

So Marina, how much for Orgasms webmaster list? :Graucho :1orglaugh

LOL :1orglaugh
its priceless

How would Marina (a Russian) know any spammers? LOL

Well i'm gonna ask pimpdog for $500k or else :Graucho

scammer err spammer..

ill never let anyone know who you are...get in touch and lets make some coin

:glugglug

I can never understand why porn spam gets lumped in with spam scam...there is a BIG FUCKING difference between sending out a mail saying "hey, come watch this stupid whore get buttfucked" and sending out a mail that looks like an official mail from citibank trolling for credit card numbers...

any excuse to fuck a chicken, eh?

Hahaha... only the ubernoobs are the ones left spamming... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh