North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
That sentence is A joke 15000 subscribers affected Court Convicts Obscene Text Messager http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IPQ4NZVA4P24ACRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=5504916 --- [email protected] wrote: > > > And again, much of this comes down to enforcement. > When was the last > > time you heard of a spammer's domain being pulled? > How about the last > > time you saw a spammer be even remotely bothered > by having their > > domain pulled? Do you think they'll really care > less about losing a > > mail server when they've got another dozen lined > up ready and waiting? > > Well, just a couple of days ago I read about a > Russian court in > Chelyabinsk that sentenced a spammer to two years in > prison. It's > the first conviction under a Russian law that > forbids the use > of malicious software and the court felt that the > spamming scripts > used by this guy were malicious software. > > What he did was to send text messages to mobile > phone > subscribers of a single company by means of a web > gateway. > I think the main reason he was put on trial was > because the > mobile operator whose customers were getting the > spam and > whose gateway was being misused, went to the police > and > complained. How many ISPs in the USA go to the > police and > register official complaints about spammers? We have > lots > of smart people who can track down and identify > spammers > but it does no good unless the companies who suffer > damage > register an official police complaint. > > --Michael Dillon >
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