Big Time Russian Spammer Murdered

from the spammed-the-wrong-person,-apparently dept

Spam certainly gets people upset, but has it reached the point where spammers are getting killed? Slashdot is pointing to a story about how one of the most well known spammers in Russia was found brutally murdered over the weekend. This is the same spammer who so pissed off the Russian Deputy Communications Minister that he set up a system to overload their phone system by calling the spammers repeatedly with a recorded message telling them to stop spamming. It's unclear, of course, if the murder has anything to do with the guy's spamming.
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    Anonymous Coward, 26 Jul 2005 @ 12:11pm

    I'd say they let him off light.

    I would have tortured him for a while first.

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    Anonymous Coward, 14 Nov 2006 @ 4:43pm

    Maybe that will teach him

    Next thing we know we'll have "ch33p b4rgain rates" with a phone number from hell. Sad thing is, there are other spammers out there who will probably take over his job...

    Have I told you about the wonderful insertproducthere yet?

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    n0, 17 Dec 2014 @ 9:47pm

    bnhkh

    good fuck him

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