Alexey Tolstokozhev, a Russian spammer who was responsible for over 30% of all viagra, cialis, and penis enlargement spam e-mails, was found shot to death in his in his luxury home near Moscow this week. Tolstokozhev reportedly made more than $2 million dollars this year alone, thanks to spam. Vardan Kushnir, another prolific Russian spammer, was assassinated in 2005.
The spam blocker I currently run has a button that reads, “Kill Spam.” I had no idea it would work so well.
Link: http://www.rlslog.net/real-punishment-russian-viagra-spammer-murdered
EDIT: Rumors are circulating that this story is a hoax. If so, that’s too bad. Everybody loves a dead spammer.
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True or not it definitely is a fitting punishment. I just started receiving about 5/day of those type of spams. My server is currently working on their anti-Spam system so for now they are getting through… it really sucks. I haven’t had Spam in years.