Spammer arrested in the US

[Peter]

Not sure if this has been posted beofre but couldn't find it.

The FBI has arrested a spammer who was generating multimillion dollar revenues through his operations.

Thought to be responsible for more than a billion spam mails sent to AOL accounts, Christopher Smith (aka 'Rizler') was arrested just after midnight as he got off a flight from the Dominican Republic last Thursday and is expected to appear in court today.

Smith had been operating out of the Dominican Republic ever since a US federal judge shut down his Burnsville Internet and Xpress Pharmacy Direct businesses and ordered him to stop selling drugs. These businesses are thought to have netted him some $18m this year alone.

In May, the FBI raided 25-year-old Smith's home and businesses, seizing $4.2m in assets and his passport. At the time of arrest Smith was travelling under a false passport.

Yet since his court order, Smith is known to have begun operating other drugs sites under a variety of aliases. By breaking court orders, Smith faces a charge of criminal contempt and could be jailed for six months.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/buyer/news/74788/spam-kingpin-seized-in-the-us.html

 

[thetzfreak]

Interesting news

 

[ThreeD]

woooohooo - take'em all down

 

[Ringr]

Haha, stupid idiot. Investigate, arrest, and execute all spammers!
I hope spam stops some day, but I doubt it ever will. Things like this help though.

 

[Chris]

:kickass:

That's great, one spammer down and thousands to go! Hopefully they'll start getting them one by one, but as they get one then another 20 will pop up so it's an almost impossible task to get all of them. :cy:

Now if they could catch the fools behind the Investment Newsletter emails that use a big graphic as their email message so you can't take out a part of it and use it to filter future spams from them. They put a bunch of random crap at the bottom that could be used to plug in the filter, but each one is different so makes it difficult. I get several of them a day, very annoying to say the least! Stupid spammers! :yell: