Spammer Gets 9 Years in Prison > No pity here

reply to BlitzenZeus

Re: No pity here

Corporations that do spam usually don't do it themselves, and hire another company/person to do the spamming. Get rid of these scapegoats, and they will have to be responsible for their own actions.

reply to ciucca
The biggest problem really is that the vast majority of this "industry" consists of nothing but fraud artists.

I always find it funny when the association of marketeers or whatever they call themselves raises holy hell over the fact that they have the right to do this, that and the other thing (with your information that they bought from, I dunno your state DMV perhaps)....and seem to try and lump these guys into that lot. IMNSHO - they would do well to distance themselves from this lot of crooks.

Sorry, but legitimate marketing is one thing - outright fraud is another. SPAM isn't just about marketing email in my mind but it also includes virus laden phishing etc. It's all the same crap to me.

Yes, we have had major issues curbing even generally legit companies marketing efforts - the National DNC Registry as done diddley for the "Hey, want a new mortgage" phonecalls I get. Mostly I think this is because the company outsources their efforts and then turns their heads to what that company may do in their name.

I still think though, if they are legal/legit you can at least have a better shot of finding them and possibly even regulating what they do. Ongoing 1st amendment arguments aside & all. If these jackholes really thought they were doing something "legit" they wouldn't hide behind bogus names, use scads of zombie machines to forward their crap or use bogus email addresses.

To hell with this dude, and all like him. He deserves the hell he gets....and I hope there is plenty more where this came from.

K.
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