Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday.
Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which up to 25 millions of spam e-mails were sent every day.
The American English Centre has been targeted by Internet protestors who published the Center’s telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. They managed to use the number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.
The murder of Russia"s biggest spammer was not connected with his Internet activity, but with a straightforward robbery, Moscow investigators reported.
Lawmakers can't seem to do much about it without penalising legittimate businesses. Maybe we should publish some more names and addresses? The threat of a brutal murder at the hands of joe public would stop quite a few people doing it!
on Jul 28 2005, 05:40AM by Lepenraum
Are you people nuts! Don't get me wrong Spam is a bitch. Murder is not the anwser to this problem.Besides We can't get them all
on Jul 28 2005, 10:25AM by oomchu
You don't have to get them all, just get a few more and the rest will be scared as hell.
10kBq jaro... is more direct than I am when dealing with malicious spammers. I have recurring visions of plying my salaciously cold fingers toward a spammers throat.