The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either

wattrlz writes "Apparently the current champion of v1*gr4 spamming solicited some of the wrong email boxes. Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands on method of system administration are staggering." Update: 10/12 15:28 GMT by Z : Good story. Unfortunately, probably a fake.

Re:Fake Story?

[Javi0084]

McAfee thinks so too http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/10/11/two-dead-spammers/ [avertlabs.com]

Spammer assasination story a fake!

[wolfeon]

Original story is on

http://loonov.com/russian-viagra-and-penis-enlargement-spammer-murdered.htm# [loonov.com]

      Domain Name: LOONOV.COM
      Registrar: ESTDOMAINS, INC.
      Whois Server: whois.estdomains.com
      Referral URL: http://www.estdomains.com/ [estdomains.com]
      Name Server: NS0.HQHOST.NET
      Name Server: NS1.HQHOST.NET
      Status: clientTransferProhibited
      Updated Date: 11-oct-2007
      Creation Date: 11-oct-2007
      Expiration Date: 11-oct-2008

Fake hoax information link
http://taint.org/2007/10/11/203243a.html [taint.org]

Domain loonov.com registered Oct 11th... FAKE!!!!

CmdrTaco, are you there?

[Spy der Mann]

Please post an update saying this story appears to be a fake.

FAKE NEWS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks faked. [avertlabs.com]

How sad.

Move along....story is FAKE...

[Elusive_Cure]

according to this [avertlabs.com] it seems that the story is fake

Re:And this is good...why?

[iceborer]

I think you meant Ambrose Bierce wrote "HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers." From The Devil's Dictionary (via Google Books).

Re:Not the first time

[guacamole]

That murder had nothing to do with the victims spam activities:

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7845&IBLOCK_ID=35 [exile.ru]

Re:Not the first time

[FoolishBluntman]

I strongly disagree. This is more than a nuisance. This is destroying the potential of the Internet. It's wasting peoples lives. If guy were doing the same door to door he would have been dead long ago. Next time, I hope they leave a DVD of the torture and televise it. Or as a previous post said -A truly just punishment would be to torture him continuously. I'll go with that. How many hundreds of hours have I spent fixing a family members' computer? Removing the Spam, the Spyware and so on. People doing this are criminals, they don't deserve to live.

definitely fake

[borat4president]

Googled the guy's name in Russian - no spam- or even internet-related mentions.

No Russian news-source is mentioned

[gr8dude]

I find it funny that all of us are so into this story and no one has bothered to verify it. The guy claims he heard the news on TV and decided to translate it for us. The thing is that if you speak Russian, and check out the TV channels, or the Russian news agencies - none of them mentions such a case. For instance, http://lenta.ru/internet/ [lenta.ru] is silent about it.

I must say this was a job well done by this bogus artist, he managed to spawn a classic slashdot dispute with many insightful posts, bravo! Well, maybe this will make spammers feel a bit uncomfortable...

Morale of the story: 10 thousand lemmings can be wrong.

looking like a hoax

[daniel.waterfield]

register is reporting this as a hoax. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/12/russian_spammer_murder/ [theregister.co.uk] tsk tsk tsk