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gonzo
07-26-2006, 12:36 PM
Cut and Paste from Wired.

He withheld pay from employees, boasted of his sexual adventures, enraged government officials, and flooded Russia with 25 million emails a day. Then one morning, Vardan Kushnir’s mother found his bloodied body on the bathroom floor, skull bashed in.

Read more (http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking.html?pg=1&topic=spamking&topic_set=)
softball
07-26-2006, 02:51 PM
What I find interesting is this guy was a world class spammer..oops mailer...and he was only making 13k a month. So, wtf were all these world calss spammers around here actually making? Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Robin
07-26-2006, 04:26 PM
What I find interesting is this guy was a world class spammer..oops mailer...and he was only making 13k a month. So, wtf were all these world calss spammers around here actually making? Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Yeah but was he just spamming to to Russians/Foreigners to learn languages? I think spam on that scale on other topics to the US would net higher than $250K a month.