A Spammer Caught In The Act

[hard candy]

An interesting post I read on the Lugradio forum (posted by aidsMonkey).
A spammer was caught and arrested in the act. The neat part is that it was one of us (well maybe not me, I couldn't have done that sysadmin stuff :p ) who tracked them down and led police to him.


Spammer (http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-April/013049.html)

[Icarus]

ln -s /dev/random http://slashdot.org

also works the other way...

ln -s http://slashdot.org /dev/random



But yes, it is a very interesting read. I'd like to hear the follow ups.
What was on the USB stick he tried to eat!?
What is on the laptop?
What are the final charges?
When's the trial?
Who does he work for?

Very good on technical info on how the sysadmin sniffed him out

[ev8r]

I personally would like to see someone swallow a USB stick.

[knute]

hehehe... You know, the thought just struck me as funny that he was in an internet cafe when he tried to eat computer hardware! :D

Do you want fries with that? :rolleyes:

[j79zlr]

why eat it, they'll just way for it to follow nature's course, and that would be about as unpleasant as anything I could think of.

[EnigmaOne]

...especially if it were to come out sideways!

"Moving" right along....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/3594043.stm

::: grinning :::

Saw this this past weekend. The follow-up from the netadmin side made it all the more enjoyable.

[Syngin]

Excellent story, HC. Thanks for sharing.