Texas Goes After Student Spammer

A number of people wrote in with this story: "Count Texas in the growing list of states fighting spammers with CAN-SPAM. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the lawsuits today, charging a University of Texas student (and a cohort in California) with sending out millions of unsolicited commercial emails under the pseudonyms PayPerAction and Leadplex, among others. Spamhaus rates PayPerAction the #4 spammers in the world."

Better not mess with Texas

[elecngnr]

They still have the death penalty in Texas, right?

Re:Book em, Danno.

[garcia]

I'd like to know what this kid's major was.

Obviously Business with an Ethics concentration.

Only 4th?

[TFGeditor]

"According to watchdog group SpamHaus, PayPerAction is the fourth-largest spam operation in the world."

Only fourth? The boy can't be a native Texan, then. Must be a Yankee immigrant.

(If you can't tell the difference between humor, flamebait, and troll, don't mod this.)

PayPerAction

[Anonymous Coward]

do you see the irony that this guy really may end up having to pay per action?

Re:Only 4th?

[El Torico]

May favorite part of the article,

Local resident Dewey Coffman received one too many spam e-mails and finally did something about it. He archived and forwarded spam messages over to the AG's Office. His main concern with spam in general for his children.

"A lot of the pornography content is offensive and that is what has concerned me the most. You can't even let the kids in the room when your reading e-mail because some the spam contains that and it will flash up on your screen before you have a chance to get rid of it,- DADNABBIT" Coffman said.

OK, I added the DADNABBIT part. Does anyone else think that Dewey Coffman must look like Eustis on 'Courage the Cowardly Dog'?

Re:Lamest Spam Dvice Ever

[rolocroz]

Yes, you're posting on it.

Re:Better not mess with Texas

[isometrick]

You're telling me! I was just sitting on the can reading Slashdot, and right after the words "Texas Goes After Student ..." I was running out the door flailing with a trail of TP dragging behind me.

I didn't specifically remember doing anything wrong, but the targeting of the title was a bit too close for my brain in the early morning!

Damn you, "a number of people", damn you to hell!

Re:Two ways

[AKnightCowboy]

Well, they figure if you don't want Viagra then you may be interested in their other products such as v14gr4 or V.!agri.a or ^i4.r4. Don't forget Cialias or C14l1$ or !4l1s soft tabs. My spam consists of someone advertising their porn webcam, shady pharmaceutical sales pitches, mortgages, and premium replica Rolex watches. They must think I have nothing better to do than buy a house and sit around taking viagara while jerking off to some slut's webcam and using my replica watch to alert me to when I should get up to get food.

Re:How did this take so long to get detected?

[FireFury03]

You could only get someone convicted, if they spammed to advertise something illegal.

Or of the spammer made unauthorised use of someone else's computer to send spam... No, no, you're right, spammers don't do illegal things like that.

Re:Better not mess with Texas

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't even need the official death penalty. Texas still has the "Needed Killin'" defense for homicide.

Police: "Why did you shoot him?"
Guy with gun: (shrug) "Needed killin'"
Police: "Ok then. Off you go."

Re:Only 4th?

[hawk]

Only fourth? The boy can't be a native Texan, then. Must be a Yankee immigrant.

Nah. THat's by quantity. These were *big* spams.

err, about somethign supposedly big, at least.

hawk