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Originally Posted by miamihumps
show proof that anyone has been sued for messages, extorsion yes, messaging no
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he wasn't sued but he was charged with violating can spam act for spamming myspace.
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February 18, 2005
Teen busted for spam extortion attempt
A teenager from Buffalo, New York is facing serious prison time for spamming, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.
Anthony "Tony" Greco, 18, who runs a set of porn sites called TGcashin, allegedly exploited security flaws at MySpace.com to spam its members.
According to a Secret Service affidavit, in October 2004 Greco created some sort of automated system for signing up for over 27,000 free MySpace accounts, which he then used to send spam advertising sites including adultactioncam.com.
To make matters worse, Greco later allegedly tried to get MySpace to pay him not to tell other spammers at Spamfiles.biz about his little trick. According to the affidavit, Greco sent MySpace's owners a message saying, "Me giving out my source will just open a Pandora?s box of Spam on your server, which based on your downtime, it?s obvious you don?t need that."
Greco was arrested Wednesday at the LA airport -- on his way to a meeting with MySpace that was actually a sting set up by the Secret Service.
Greco is hardly a major player in the spam business. But this case is still significant. I think it shows the risks spammers take when they try to exploit security flaws to support their spam operations.
Greco faces a maximum possible penalty of 18 years in federal prison if convicted on all three counts:
violating the CAN-SPAM Act, threatening to cause damage to MySpace.com's computers with the intent to extort, and causing damage to a protected computer.
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