Yahoo Spammer Arrested
 

a yahoo spammer was arrested in my area yesterday. apparently their using the can spam act to nail his ass. looks like he'll be serving some time.

as long as they don't go after yahoo SE spammers I don't care :glugglug

He must have been making big coin. :winkwink:

He fuckin' deserve it !!!

People still spam on yahoo?

yeah, i was curious and went to yahoo groups, it seems to go on a lot. i don't see how anyone is making money though.

keep thinking that.... :)

its not worth prison time and loosing everything, it would have to be a lot of dough.

this will scare a lot of spammers.

its not worth the 20 bucks a month they make i'm sure

depends on what he was busted for.. with all the other spamers busted they were nailed for other things such as fraud or identity theft. I have yet to see anyone get busted "just" for spamming.

However "Spammer arrested" is thrown around a lot in the news headlines.

has any one even confirmed this to be true....

There will always be spammers. It's starting to be like playing Russian Roulette though. :winkwink:

But all those things are vital to a spammer. Just using proxies is already illegal.

Woah thoses are some strong words ...

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Oh oh.
WG

Cool - they should arrest all spammers :thumbsup

I think that wasting the tax dollars of the people to chase spammers is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

There are more serious things than spam. and that money needs to be used for those things.

no it isn't..

what country has this law ?? i have certainly never heard of it.

are they doing fake profiles? uh oh....i was going to get into that but, now i guess i wont

very true. that spammer that was recently arrested and has a $1 mil. bail, was spamming fake scammy shit. he fucking deserves all that he gets.

can spam is one fed law, then there are the numerous state laws (which are enforceable) and just about any isp can have a good faith lawsuit against any mailer.

free advice: put that energy and talent originally used for mailing into low risk niches such as search engines and avoid the risks of mailing for a while. these isp's love the publicity they get from the lawsuits in the ongoing isp war for free email account users to advertise to.

it is soooo easy to get sued- you can use a nebulous subject like "sexually-explicit: just turned 18" and they can sue you claiming the subject is deceptive because the models may not be actually just 18 for example. Sounds silly- but it happens for real.

btw- we have one of our ironport's for sale.

none of this has seemed to even make a dent in the amount of spam i get everyday

lol he probally get 9 years LOL

I could do two bankrobberies with an ak47 and still get less time!!!! (no joke)

I got spamcop on the payroll so im not going anywhere :thumbsup

Well as long as you are only using proxies I would think you could scoot under the gaydar for quite awhile. I think their big targets are guys that are committing fraud and identity theft and so on.

I think if you were "just" mailing it would be hard for them to get a very good conviction on you. Especially with a trial by jury.


I think "Can Spam" outlaws the use of proxies when mailing, but don't quote me on it..