Brightmail Denies "White List" Deal With Spammer

ThePretender writes "From the InfoWorld article: 'A spammer's claim to his clients that he had an agreement with anti-spam technology vendor Brightmail to not block his traffic was contradicted by Brightmail officials today.' From the sounds of it, Scott Richter (apparently a notorious spammer) might just be looking for some media attention, he even goes as far saying he has similar agreements with some major ISPs. Ouch! May the drama unfold..."

sure, I believe him

[frovingslosh]

Spammers are always honest, arn't they?

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[schematix]

The name of the spammer in question is Scott Ritcher by the way...not Richert. I've been lucky enough to meet this guy and even stay at his half million dollar house in Westminster Colorado for a week. He's doing pretty well for himself if you count the house, the 3 car garage with a black Lexus SC430 and a matching LX470. But overall i'd have to say him and his company are a bunch of idiots. His so-called "partner" Dustin Parker (it says this in the spamhaus link) is a total idiot . When i worked for him, Dustin was a 16-year old middle school drop out. We smoked a couple blunts together. Complete idiot. Just goes to show it doesn't take intelligence to become successful. Of course Scott is only dragging Dustin along because Scott himself is clueless from a technical standpoint. I dunno what the point of this post was except that Dustin is an idiot and Scott isn't far behind him but Scott's making millions off of other idiots so i guess that says something.

That's nothing...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got a deal with Microsoft and the big AV companies to not do anything about the email virus I'm about to let loose.

Enjoy suckers!!! :)

Re:blah

[Reteo Varala]

Yup... Just a case of the dyslexic leading the blind... for a fee.

From the Article

[alphonso_bedoya]

Francois Lavaste, Brightmail VP of Marketing, said in a statement provided the GripeLog, "I have personally verified, with the assistance of male members of my department, the ineffectiveness of products advertised by Mr. Richter." Other Brightmail executives were spending the holidays in Nigeria and were unavailable for comment.

The spammer rules

[cluge]

With variation from time to time, the rules that ALWAYS applies to spammers are[From news.admin.net-abuse.email]:

Rule #1: Spammers lie.
[(Proposed) Sharp's Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define "spamming" as that which they do not do.]

Rule #2: If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule #1.
Chrissman's Corollary: A spammer, when caught, blames his victims.

Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
Krueger's Corollary: Spammer lies are really stupid. Pickett's Commentary: Spammer lies are boring. Russell's Corollary: Never underestimate the stupidity of spammers.

I say see rule #1 when listening to a spammer.

AngryPeopleRule [angrypeoplerule.com]

Re:From the Article

[ChoGGi]

"I have personally verified, with the assistance of male members of my department"
does this sound to you as if they were testing a certain enlargement product that they had received in their mail

Re:blah

[Clay Pigeon -TPF-VS-]

Still smoking the blunts with Parker, I see.

Re:What will be the result of the Anti-Spam Law ?

[fermion]

So more jobs leave the US, fewer of us have good jobs and the expendable income that accompanies said jobs, so we become less of a target for Spammers. As many have said, Spamming is profitable because consumers buy the products. No US consumers, no reason to spam the US. Market dies, so the product dies. Spam problem solved. I fail to see a downside to this.

Re:Touchy, aren't they?

[netsharc]

OptinRealBig? Why did I read that as "Open Real Big"? And why did that put the disturbing image of the goatse guy in my head?

But, to be "goatsed" is definitely something this Scott Richter guy (as well as other spammers) deserves.

Re:Address

[MuckSavage]

For some reason, I get a bad feeling with someone like that living so close to me. Makes my hometown look bad.

However, we could organize a "field trip".

Me too I've got an agreement, the Iron Bar

[totatis]

Me too, I concluded an agreement with this guy, about my Iron Bar(TM). Whenever I meet him, he lets me beat the hell out of him with my Iron Bar(TM).

Rumours are that I have agreements with other spammers too, they just love my Iron Bar(TM).

Iron Bar(TM), the ultimate solution to construtive talks with spammers.

Re:blah

[segment]

that's a myth that it makes you forgetful... hell I've been smoking since.... since .... since....

Re:Address

[erveek]

You could always argue that he could opt out of your valuable subscription paper-bag-full-of-flaming-dogshit service at any time.

Re:So who are these guys http://www.ileads.com

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish credit card companies had fake numbers to give to these spammers and paypal fraud artists that would automatically trigger alarms when they ran through for verification. This would be a great way for people to track down who is actually profiting from the spam. A good-guy version of the trojan horse, if you will.

But then the spammers would just block those numbers from being passed through their programs....

Re:Address

[Kris_J]

How about a sign on a stick that reads "The person inside this building thinks your 12 year old daughter needs a bigger penis"?