Spam King Adam Vitale Busted By Secret Service

Spam Daily News ^ | 2/28/06

[steve-b]

Adam Vitale, aka Batch1 aka Baxter, 25, of Boynton Beach, FL, and his partner Todd Moeller, aka M3rk... are accused of sending nearly 50,000 pieces of spam e-mail to more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers.

US Secret Service agents used a confidential informant to hire Moeller and Vitale to deliver spam, which advertised a computer security product....

[wideawake]

50,000 emails is the number they agreed to send in a single transaction with an undercover agent. The true number they sent is likely in the billions.

This operation probably saves private industry far more money than the few thousand dollars it cost to put together this sting.

[Billthedrill]

You do realize how many synapses we've burned memorizing Monty Python skits, don't you? That could have been used for something useful, like the lyrics to Gilligan's Island?

[Petronski]

I think with government backing I can make it very silly indeed.

[wideawake]

The Secret Service is the primary investigator of identity theft on the federal level, for example. they also investigate counterfeiting, wire fraud and bank fraud. Insofar as any spam message is fraudulent it is a form of wire fraud.

[Know your rights]

Spams are fraudulent? You mean the herbal male enhancement I ordered may not work?!

[theDentist]

SS is the investigative arm of the Treasury Dept... and therefore they can investigate wire fraud, particularly if it involved federal (or Treasury) equipment.

[Busywhiskers]

I think that would work out to 60 billion not 60 trillion.

I hope these are the morons that keep sending me the mortgage offers.

[Petronski]

Billion, trillion . . . whatever.



;OD

[hford02]

I'm still waiting for three different Nigerian bankers to forward my money to my account

[b4its2late]

Ahhh, finally. No more spam in my mailbox. Thank you, thank you.........

[6ppc]

If you can identify the source of the spam, just nuke the site from orbit...it's the only way to be sure!

[steve-b]

You mean the herbal male enhancement I ordered may not work?!

Maybe it worked for Vitale's cell mate.

[Busywhiskers]

A billion here...a billion there..and before you know you're talking about a lot of spam.

(A respectful nod to late Senator Everett Dirkson, R-IL)

[wideawake]

That's the word on the street.

[Dick Vomer]

I do not like green eggs and spam... I do not like them sam I am.....

[Dick Vomer]

I hope these are the morons that keep sending me the mortgage offers.