Steely Dan Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Justice is served, shoulda been more but I like it! Federal prosecutors say Davidson's operation used false e-mail headers to disguise the sender. Prosecutors say some of the spam was meant to dupe stock investors and manipulate markets. Authorities say Davidson made at least $3.5 million sending e-mails for nearly 20 companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 To hell with prison. Spammers are the same class of lowlife as molesters, rapists, the guy in austria, etc. These types of people should be dragged down the interstate by their ankles at 75mph by a semi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterhill Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 To hell with prison. Spammers are the same class of lowlife as molesters, rapists, the guy in austria, etc. These types of people should be dragged down the interstate by their ankles at 75mph by a semi. while they are annoying...I am sure most would rather be spammed then raped or molested..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 while they are annoying...I am sure most would rather be spammed then raped or molested..... I guess comedic exaggeration isn't in your vocabulary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterhill Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I guess comedic exaggeration isn't in your vocabulary. No I am all business...no time for shenanigans and hi-jinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjeff215 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Justice is served, shoulda been more but I like it! Federal prosecutors say Davidson's operation used false e-mail headers to disguise the sender. Prosecutors say some of the spam was meant to dupe stock investors and manipulate markets. Authorities say Davidson made at least $3.5 million sending e-mails for nearly 20 companies. I honestly don't see prison time as the correct punishment for sending out spam. Think about this one. We're all flaming mad that we have to filter messages or click delete because having to do so costs us money. So, the right thing to do is to put the guy in jail where he can cost tax dollars? Even if, in this particular case, he was trying to dupe investors (which on the surface sounds like a bit of stretch), prison time seems pretty ridiculous. Kill him financially and put him on probation until he's old and decrepit. Spam is annoying (I run a few pretty large mail systems -- quite literally hundreds of thousands of domains). I know what it costs us to filter it out. This guy will probably sit in prison longer than the redneck down the road that beat the piss out of his wife for buying Lite beer by accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 I honestly don't see prison time as the correct punishment for sending out spam. Think about this one. We're all flaming mad that we have to filter messages or click delete because having to do so costs us money. So, the right thing to do is to put the guy in jail where he can cost tax dollars? Even if, in this particular case, he was trying to dupe investors (which on the surface sounds like a bit of stretch), prison time seems pretty ridiculous. Kill him financially and put him on probation until he's old and decrepit. Spam is annoying (I run a few pretty large mail systems -- quite literally hundreds of thousands of domains). I know what it costs us to filter it out. This guy will probably sit in prison longer than the redneck down the road that beat the piss out of his wife for buying Lite beer by accident. Why not both? Simply empty his bank accounts; take all his money -- he won't need it in jail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmwolf21 Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Article says he made $3.5M spamming for 20 companies...so tack the cost of his incarceration onto his $715,000 IRS fine/fees/whatever they're calling it. Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Why not both? Simply empty his bank accounts; take all his money -- he won't need it in jail. BTW, I've developed a system for not getting any SPAM and it works. I won't share it here but it does work. I have gotten 0 spam since I started doing it. It will only work on home email though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLiveRalph Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 No I am all business...no time for shenanigans and hi-jinks I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans." Ok, hi-jinks seems to be ok with you so I propose a compromise. Shenana-jinks or hi-nigans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjeff215 Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Article says he made $3.5M spamming for 20 companies...so tack the cost of his incarceration onto his $715,000 IRS fine/fees/whatever they're calling it. Problem solved. There's a fine line between Spamming and legitimate mail marketing. I'm not standing up for this dude, as I put most of these guys in the "Joe Francis Bin", but there are legitimate companies out there that make money off of lead tracking and whatnot (Constant Contact is the first that comes to mind). Would be interesting to read a bit more on the case. What constitutes header forging? A date in the future? A fake sender? The vast majority of automated email messages out there have a "falsified" sender. We've all seen 'donotreply@company.com.' The tax evasion bit doesn't help his character, though. I'd love to see who the 20 companies on his client list are. Interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 No I am all business...no time for shenanigans and hi-jinks But your shenanigans are cheeky and fun And that PoS spammers shenanigans are cruel and tragic 21 months in prison is a long time to sit and reflect on what he has done. I'm sure he will have plenty of time for reading. So let's start up a correspondence with him, a MASS correspondence with him. Everybody start sending him your junk mail flyers, coupon sheets, "Missing have you seen me" postcards, etc. I wonder if you can send Postage Due to an inmate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsWatch Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 As part of his sentence, Davidson agreed to forfeit personal property, including gold coins, he amassed through illegal spam and tax evasion, prosecutors said. Looks like he hid the rest of his assets and will not have the money to pay prison for upkeep. He will spend less time in prison than the cumulative time the people he sent spam to spent deleting the spam mail. Many of the e-mail addresses he used were from real companies forcing companies to weed thru mail and tell replies that the mail did not originate from the company but had forged headers. He got off very light from our lenient justice systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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