John Galt
Forward, March
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Happy Camp | My Final Offer
$500 for the $75,000 in cash...!
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Derch
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join:2004-10-16
Tulsa, OK | My God...
"AOL will find you and sue you."
Sounds like one of there publicity stunts. |
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tapeloop
1959. I try to kick the ball. I miss.
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Airstrip One
| lol @ AOL
Well, they sued, they won, they can do with the booty as they see fit.
One would think that they would take that cash and use it towards shoring up their ever-shrinking subscriber base. I'm just saying.
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lazsheriff
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
1 edit | all of this...
All of this before he even hit 21.
I wonder what he told his parents when they asked what he did for a living.
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SweetDelight
lagomorph
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Earth | Aren't We forgetting
Aren't We forgetting AOL sucks Still. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| reply to Derch
Re: My God...
said by Derch  :"AOL will find you and sue you." Sounds like one of there publicity stunts. I too see it as publicity, but a stunt? I wouldn't say it was a stunt. If AOL is serious about stopping, spam and this action is further proof of that, then I'd say that this is more along the lines of making an examnple of the loosers.
I'll remember this story every time I delete my 60 spam messages a day. |
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johnbor
join:2004-03-30
Burton, OH | reply to SweetDelight
Re: Aren't We forgetting
Oh yeah they sure cleaned him out, isn't this the kid that raked in over 900 grand... oh yeah ,, they hurt him.. Oh and AOL STILL SUCKS... |
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Brownbay
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join:2005-03-13
North York, ON
| reply to SweetDelight
Can someone explain a few things here...
1. How the hell did he rake in so much cash from spamming? Sure the company he's spamming for would pay him... but this much?
2. Can we not go after companies that stoop so low as to employ spammers to market their products? And if so, why aren't we? |
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mooty
join:2001-01-28
Riverdale, GA | Speaking of. . .
I will take the penis pills, $10 for all of them..final offer |
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MysticGogeta
The Robot Devil
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League City, TX
clubs: | Spammers payed? i want in
Who pays you to spam this dont even work i love to spam but not in russia that guy got beaten to death |
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DaMaGeINC
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Re: Aren't We forgetting
said by Brownbay :Can someone explain a few things here... 1. How the hell did he rake in so much cash from spamming? Sure the company he's spamming for would pay him... but this much? 2. Can we not go after companies that stoop so low as to employ spammers to market their products? And if so, why aren't we? Im also wondering. I might become a spammer now.
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TKJunkMail
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|  Good for AOL; now find the other 50,000 spammers
I think it is great they got this guy. But find all the other spammers out there(at least the ones in the US) and do the same thing.
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biochemistry
join:2003-05-09
92361 | AOL
And AOL continues to make good decisions. What is with them over the past 6 months or so? |
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shrtckt1
Fried Rice
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Athens, GA | One for AOL
I am NOT a AOL fan. But, at least they burnt one of these aholes. I don't see any other provider showing off their catches. |
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martissimo
join:2001-12-01
Las Vegas, NV
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Re: lol @ AOL
in a way they are though aren't they, think of this little giveaway as "advertising", even the most hardened of us who can't stand em well be hard pressed not to give em a lil thumbs up on this one |
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khc987
join:2001-08-22
Jacksonville, FL | this is the second time they have done this
from article...It's the second time AOL has given away assets confiscated from a spammer. Last year, AOL raffled a $45,000 Porsche Boxster it seized as part of a settlement against another unnamed junk mail scumbag. ... |
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reslor1
join:2003-01-10
Hackettstown, NJ | Spam to stop spam
So I guess AOL is going to spam their members with info on how to get in on the rafle to win a spammers car? |
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BarneyBadAss
Badasses Fight For Freedom
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| WW_D?
WW_D = "What Would _your_isp_ Do?"
_your_isp_ has this functionality on thier web email interface tha allows it's users to report some stuff as "SPAM".
So, the users use the interface and report the SPAM, but it continually flows into our mail boxes.
Now, if _your_isp_ went after someone like this, instead of having a download cap enforced on someone; I can only imagine they would put an "Upload" limit on the person.
Wouldn't it be funny if _your_isp_ caught and prosicuted someone like this, can't you imagine they wouldn't give the booty to it's customers. I suspect _your_isp_ would take the Hummer; paint it to the approprite colors; melt down the gold and make rings and trinkets for it's executives; and do all kinds of other things; then just to be sure things werre on the up and up; they would raise your rates to cover the cost of the litigation!!! ARGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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Derfel
join:2004-06-06
Winnipeg, MB | Hmmm...
I wonder if I can sue AOL for all those crap discs they sent to my house, my place of work and my school years back.
Naw... a few more years and AOL's stuff will be on the auction block anyways. |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
| reply to Brownbay
Re: Aren't We forgetting
said by Brownbay :Can someone explain a few things here... 1. How the hell did he rake in so much cash from spamming? Sure the company he's spamming for would pay him... but this much? It's easy. If a spammer sends out 10 million e-mails and 1/100th of 1 percent buy an average of $10 worth of material, the spammer has earned $10,000. His costs are relatively low since he foists the bandwidth costs on others (via open relays and/or trojaned systems). After a few mailings, he'll be able to earn more than most of the folks who hang out here.
Of course, this is a simplification. Not all spammers are successful. Some wind up being multi-millionaires and some wind up dirt poor. Some, like the spammer from the article, might make millions and then get caught and have them taken away.
said by Brownbay :2. Can we not go after companies that stoop so low as to employ spammers to market their products? And if so, why aren't we? The problem is tracking the money. Sometimes the companies genuinely don't know that their products are being offered via spam. Sometimes, in the case of software, the real sellers are stores that would otherwise sell the product legitimately via a web site or a physical shop. Sometimes the product is pirated and being sold. Should we punish Symantec because a pirated copy of Norton Anti-Virus is being sold via spam?
Even if the spam is being paid for directly by the company, most companies will be smart enough to cover their tracks. They'll claim that they didn't know that the person they hired was spamming. In short, it's not as easy as it sounds.
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