U.S. Spam King Confirms Move to New Zealand

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via the Spam Kings blog.

[snip]

Television New Zealand's "One News" program has obtained an on-camera interview with Brendan Battles, in which he 
admitted to being the American spam king who had apparently retired last year.

Rumors of the Florida spammer's relocation started last October, when someone anonymously posted a report of Battles' 
move to Kiwiland to the Nanae newsgroup.

If Battles had planned to turn over a new leaf in New Zealand, those hopes began to unravel when he made the mistake of 
spamming a New Zealand-based anti-spammer (sample here) earlier this month. The message was part of a small spam run 
advertising broadband wireless from Wired Country Direct, a unit of Compass Communications.

Following the March 3 spam incident, Computerworld published a story this week in which Battles, who now resides in 
Auckland, denied he was the same person reviled by anti-spammers.

[snip]

More:
http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/us_spam_king_co.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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