Posted on 09/13/2006 5:48:20 AM PDT by JRios1968
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian man under investigation for illegal spamming sent more than 2 billion e-mails promoting Viagra in a year, an official said Wednesday.
Experts say that's a drop in the ocean compared to the number of spam e-mails sent globally each year, and the system he used probably wasn't very sophisticated.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority began investigating the man, whose identity was not immediately released, after receiving a tip-off from authorities in the Netherlands in May last year.
Danyel Molenaar, a project manager for the Dutch Independent Regulator of Post and Telecommunications, said the man had rented 35 servers for around 14,000 Australian dollars (US$10,493; euro8,256) each per month from a small Internet service provider in the Netherlands to carry out the alleged spam campaign.
"These 35 servers were used just for sending spam day-in, day-out for at least a year, probably longer," Molenaar said Wednesday. "This operation probably sent out billions and billions of e-mails."
Australia has some of the toughest laws in the world against spamming, the notoriously hard-to-stop practice of flooding as many inboxes as possible with unwanted sales messages in the hope some of the receivers will reply.
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Dang. Can I repeat my quip from the other thread? Okay, put him in a room with a computer with 2 billion e-mails. One has the date and time of his parole hearing. He has to delete the rest.
Quit spamming these threads.
I've been hoping you'd come and arrest me. :-)
All I want is the jerk's e-mail address . . .
Tattoo -- no, brand -- the Stars and Strips on one cheek, the Star of David on the other, "Mohammad Sucks" in Arabic on his forehead, and drop him in downtown Mecca.
I wouldn't be upset, except that I think he sent at least half of them to my account.
I like it!
Maybe he was just trying to get your attention...?
Too bad he can only have his hands chopped off and eyes gouged out just the one time.
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