Re: Under Attack, Spammer Begs For Mercy

[Larry/Spamhaus <lr () spamhaus org>]

At 05:06 PM 1/17/06 +0000, Fergie wrote:
> Brian McWilliams writes on the Spam Kings blog:
>
> [snip]
>
> A follow up to my recent post about a controversial campaign to pollute a 
> mortgage spammer's sites with bogus orders:
>
> Darren Brothers reports that Alex Polyakov, the target of his Kick a 
> Spammer in the Nuts Daily retaliatory campaign, has cried uncle.
>
> Brothers says he got a call early this morning from Polyakov.
>
> [...] an excited Polyakov complains that Brothers' "Refi Retaliator" 
> program is "killing my business."
>
> "How much money do I have to pay you? Surely we can work out something 
> together!" says Polyakov.
>
> [snip]
>
> More here, including a couple of audio recordings of the phone
> conversation(s):
> http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/01/under_attack_spammer_begs_for_1.html
>
> - ferg

Fighting abuse with abuse is wrong...

...but how any anything wrong sound so right!? ;-)

Nice to hear a Russian ROKSO spambag squeal.


Cheers,

Larry @ Spamhaus

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