Someone needs to knock on his jail cell every 15 minutes asking if he'd like to buy Viagra or cigarettes. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year. For 25 years.
Florida man ran $1.35m hack-and-spam racket with 50m-plus addresses
The leader of a spamming gang that took over corporate servers and private email accounts to send out spam has pled guilty to charges of computer hacking and identity theft. Timothy Livingston, 31, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, worked with two other partners to run A Whole Lot of Nothing, LLC. The shell company pulled in …
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Saturday 29th October 2016 09:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
The real story here is thousands and thousands of idiots purchased items as a result of spam emails.
If people stopped buying things as a result of an unsolicited email then down would soon stop.
It's getting worse as well. I had to add a notice to contact forms on websites that abuse of them for selling (SEO idiots, for a start) is automatically agreeing to a purchase of 4 hours of consulting to compensate for the use of time and resources to clear the junk and scan for possible infections, and I also get junkmail which contains without exception a macro-infested Word document, either as a .doc, a .docx or in a ZIP file. It's usually a pretend FedEx delivery, an invoice or an urgent IRS demand - you know, anything that would prompt you to open the email if it wasn't for the fact that we're very much non-US and send/return addresses and mail servers never quite line up.
None of these macro viruses will work, by the way, as the virus risk is yet another reason why we switched to LibreOffice wholesale (cost, UI stability and cross-platform fidelity were the other arguments). Besides that, we only have two Windows machines left, one in dev for user experience testing and one in support, and both of those will most likely be virtualised in the next few weeks.
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Monday 31st October 2016 12:10 GMT bombastic bob
"we're very much non-US and send/return addresses and mail servers never quite line up."
I (a 'merkin) occasionally get UK-related spam as well...
The Comcast employee who used Comcast's e-mail database for spamming, though... that's pretty disturbing. I wonder how common it is for security breaches to happen "that way".
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Saturday 29th October 2016 10:23 GMT defiler
Re: What is it with the expensive car collections?
Because the only waste or money is to sit on it.
For one, money needs to move around to be of any use. And for two, what's the point in working / defrauding / stealing for money if you can't them go on to enjoy it.
And fast cars are certainly enjoyable. Woefully bad investment, as a rule, but enjoyable.
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Monday 31st October 2016 12:21 GMT bombastic bob
Re: What is it with the expensive car collections?
"Why do they do this?"
The reason you do not understand why they do it, is because you do not have a criminal mindset. I think it ties in with GREED (among other things).
Criminally-minded people do criminal things to 'get rich quick' at everyone else's expense, without a care as to who is harmed in the process. Hard work, responsibility, etc. don't exist with these people. I've seen it before: they'll spend unlimited time thinking up scams or schemes, and won't spend 5 minutes looking for a real job. [my uncle, my friend's brother, some asshat I knew in college that had my name written in his 'book' so thanks for the interview with federal officers even though I repeatedly said "I don't want ANYTHING to do with"...]
Recently, some asshat was arrested because he used his REAL identity to rob banks and investment firms...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/28/hacker_bank_arrest/
After stealing the initial $100k - he'd apparently gotten away with it - it motivated him to go for the $1.5 million, which THEN got the FBI's attention.
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