Duo arrested for sending 1.6 billion spams

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 31st January 2007
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The two men are suspected to have sent out around 1.6 billion emails in four months.

The two men are suspected to have sent out around 1.6 billion emails in four months.

Yesterday, two spammers from South Korea were arrested on suspicion of sending out around 1.6 billion unsolicited emails in violation of the country's commerce laws.

The young men, aged 20 and 26, are suspected of sending all of the mails out between September and December 2006. Police say the two men are involved in what has been described as one of the biggest spam blasts in the country's history.

Police claimed that the two have obtained personal and financial data from the 12,000 South Koreans who responded to the unsolicited messages, before selling the information onto lending services firms for over £50,000.

The pair were not named by police, but the police has said that it will turn over all evidence to prosecutors soon. The prosecutors will then inform the court of the charges they're looking to file against the pair.

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Quote hughwi 31st January 2007, 11:15
thats just crazy, whats even more crazy is that over 10 thousand people responded!
Quote bilbothebaggins 31st January 2007, 11:26
Quote:
Originally Posted by hughwi
thats just crazy, whats even more crazy is that over 10 thousand people responded!
That ain't crazy, that's statistics. :(

Oh, and may they burn in hell
Quote BioSniper 31st January 2007, 11:28
Shame the ammount of spam I recieve still hasn't gone down though :(
Quote Mankz. 31st January 2007, 11:37
Seves them right. They cause people inconvinences, so they should pay people back...


...with prison time of course.
Quote Echo 31st January 2007, 12:51
Fantastic News!
Quote ComputerKing 31st January 2007, 13:11
ROFL , Big ass Spamer
Quote Spaceraver 31st January 2007, 13:29
yay... that is a step in the right direction... now lock them up for good, throw away the key and forget to feed them
Quote kylelnsn 31st January 2007, 13:34
i used never to get any spam mabe 1 a month, but as of november last year i started gettign 15 a day, i got thousands now. luckly gmail puts it in the spam folder so i dont have to worry.

but that mite exxplain it?

anyways me hates da spammers!
Quote Paradigm Shifter 31st January 2007, 15:30
1.6 billion spam messages?

Ouch.
Quote SteveyG 31st January 2007, 16:13
They should be forced to use 28k modems for the rest of their lives.
Quote devenfore 31st January 2007, 16:21
Now they need to go after the people that bought the information from them...

That would help a lot.
Quote samkiller42 31st January 2007, 16:28
The question i want to ask is why, why do it? and looking at it, the obviuos answer is "Money" God dam it, i wish we didnt need money.

Sam
Quote DXR_13KE 31st January 2007, 20:56
jail time my ass, forced labor in a salt mine with sadistic satanists lashing them with chickens.
Quote specofdust 31st January 2007, 21:54
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jail time my ass, forced labor in a salt mine with sadistic satanists lashing them with chickens.

I actually really really like this one. Spammers are pretty much as low a lifeform as you can get on the net.
Quote pendragon 31st January 2007, 22:26
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mankz_91
Seves them right. They cause people inconvinences

...and violate laws ;)
Quote bloodcar 31st January 2007, 22:40
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Originally Posted by SteveyG
They should be forced to use 28k modems for the rest of their lives.
Why? You can do just as much damage on a 28k connection as you can a 100M connection. They're not actually sending the mails out themselves, they're using their botnets.
Quote Cthippo 1st February 2007, 02:02
12,000 responses.

Take those people's computers away and maybe you'll put a dent in spam. As long as people respond to spam, there will be spam.
Quote specofdust 1st February 2007, 02:04
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Originally Posted by Cthippo
12,000 responses.

Take those people's computers away and maybe you'll put a dent in spam. As long as people respond to spam, there will be spam.

There'll always be desperate foolish people though. There is no malice in them. There is greed and selfishness in the people who send them out though, and for that reason they are the ones to go after.

The way that russian spammer got stopped last year(IIRC) was the best way devised yet, and it's a shame more aren't stopped the same way.
Quote bloodcar 1st February 2007, 02:33
Hey, I can name one thing that was good that came from spam.... the X10 camera. I never bought one myself, but I've seen several and those damn things were a steal.
Quote speedfreek 1st February 2007, 03:41
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Originally Posted by bloodcar
Hey, I can name one thing that was good that came from spam.... the X10 camera. I never bought one myself, but I've seen several and those damn things were a steal.
ONE OF THEM!

At least you didnt buy one.

I only really look at email that I sent for or from friends, the only good spamish email I ever get is the think geek newsletter.
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