18 year old arrested for IM spam
 

Now they're going after IM spammers. Of course his attempted extortion made him first in line.


...Anthony Greco, 18, was arrested Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport, where prosecutors said they lured him from his upstate New York home for what he expected would be a meeting with the president of MySpace.com, a popular social-networking company whose users Greco allegedly spammed...


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

"According to its website, Greco's company, TGCashin Inc., promotes"

Isn't he a gfyer ? i remember reading about TGCashin here.

wow, juicy is 18 years old?

yehoo, Spamers dieing

lol;)))))

whoa thats crazy

Holy shit!

I have known him for almost 6 years. Thats crazy

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bfjuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuufff

hmmm, he's offline at the moment

nevermind....

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hahaha to quote him:

from his thread here:

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=368104

Bold, Brazen and busted. Its one thing to Spim but to be bold enough to try and extort the company you are spimming on is another.

These young guys think they can't be touched. They think they are invincible. Just plain stupid.

omg that pic
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On top of that he says he's not guilty. I guess it was the Easter Bunny that flew to California to meet these people to sign the "marketing contract"

DAMnnnnnnnN, scary shit :party-smi

"Greco had threatened to tell other spammers how he sent the unsolicited instant messages to MySpace users last fall if he wasn't given an exclusive marketing contract with the company, according to a sworn investigator's statement filed in Los Angeles federal court."

Damn, how did he ever get a business up and running being that stupid?

Ouch!

Kids... :helpme

Damn those KIDS! They dont know any better.. :helpme

"The next month, Greco proposed a deal to MySpace executives: He would pay the company $150 a day for the exclusive right to send advertising to MySpace users. Otherwise, "I have no choice but to just sell off my coding to other people and allow them to pick up the projects," he wrote, according to an affidavit by Los Angeles Police Det. Frank Schweitzer."

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Nice shot. But you still should get out from PC from time to time.

That's not IM spam. That's the site's messaging system, like web mail.

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however, spammers suck

He isn't getting laid

I am sorry, but I disagree with the prison terms for spam. That is bullshit. I dont have a problem getting rid of the spammers, but putting them in jail is absurd.

I think he got a bit greedy, and it brought him down

This links is better than the yahoo slow assed link above:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...-home-business

ughhhhhhh...O W N E D soo much that.....cant take s h i t...
http://pics.awstuff.com/albums/1/ownedtoilet.jpg

what an idiot :1orglaugh

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If they are using their own servers and resources and have true opt out ... I would tend to agree with you.

However knowing first hand what it costs companies to combat spam in the way of anti spam software, usage of bandwidth, space and what not it always turns into theft of services rather than spam and therefore thats where the jail times come in.

Also these spammers gets ip blocks completely blocked by these off the wall spamhauses then the hosting companies are forced to setup new ventures to get "clean ips". Spam costs all us in this industry money like it or not.

Think bandwidth is free? or space on a server? then why is your host charging you every month.

Don't think for a minute that this guy isn't making deals to lessen his charges by turning over the names of peeps he did biz with. Watch out gfy spammers, the feds are watching you :2 cents: :2 cents:

If it wasnt for spammers most programs would be bankrupt you dumb fuck.

sucks hardcore, he fucked himself trying to act all gangster and MySpace prob notified the cops.

damn :disgust

This is hardly classifiable as IM spam.

hehe cool story

how come? it is in my opinion.

so juicy lied when he said he was goin to canada

Jesus fucking christ. What is this bullshit.
Fine if they want to give him a prison sentence I don't really care, but he gets 18 years? But someone dealing crack, stealing shit, or assaulting another person gets less than 8 years.

WAKE THE FUCK UP.

The system is always trying to keep the spammer down

Damn that sucks for tony, he's been running tgcashin for like 4 years now :(

I hear ya, but spam does cost millions. But this was no usual spammer either. If the accusations are true, he was threatening myspace for a contract or else he would let the dogs at their system, and that can't be tolerated. That's extortion and does deserve jail time.

All of spam costs millions.. Not one guys spam.

Because it was myspace system not AIM or yahoo or something.. And besides he didnt spam anything did he? I just read he threatened someone over it.. Thats hardly "spamming".