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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment
2005-07-25
H T - DRUDGE

Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.
Foul man took up all my cache!
Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day.
This is a pattern. Last week "Nigerian Investors", now this!
Progress ... of a sort ...
In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Center’s telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Center’s telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.
Reaaaaaallly cheap sex, in a reaaaaaalllly small house, far away from Moscow or St Petersburg!
Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for.
I think, therefore I spam?
Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S.
Those Duma boyz aren't moving so fast, as they have their own "cottage industries", which includes spamming as advertisement...
They're waiting for Vlad to tell them what to do. The Duma has a striking resemblence to the old Supreme Soviet ...
Posted by:BigEd

#16  Heh

Heh is the copyright of Glenn Reynolds. Its use does not constitute endorsement of the opinions expressed herein.
Posted by: Crans Thaling7071   2005-07-25 20:48  

#15  Never read any of the mail that gets sent there, just visit once a week to dump it.

Hummm.... a little eccentric sorta action, that plus the green highlight marks you. With medication and close supervision you can lead a full life. Avoid electronic transactions and spend as much time as possible outdoors, away from little baby ducks.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-25 20:02  

#14  Justified homocide.
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-07-25 16:27  

#13  Now his only legacy has been boiled down to 1s and 0s...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-07-25 15:53  

#12  Re #2 (Frank G, cyrillic letters): So that's why part of my spam is gobbledegook!
Posted by: Neutron Tom   2005-07-25 15:26  

#11  #4 Dear sir:

This is a confidential business opportunity.

I am the widow of Vardan Kushnir. Before his death, he invested $40,000,000 in diamonds....
Posted by Jackal 2005-07-25 14:02|| Front Page|| Comment Top


lmao!

ima get wun cupla munths ago bowt "help preserf teh korran"
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-07-25 15:20  

#10  It's why I won't put an email addy on my posts
I have a special Hotmail account just for that purpose. Never read any of the mail that gets sent there, just visit once a week to dump it.
Posted by: Steve   2005-07-25 15:01  

#9  It's easy to write a spider to pick off your handle and the associated email addy. It's even easier to buy the extensive lists generated by existing spiders. It's why I won't put an email addy on my posts at any blog, never send e-cards, or any of the other common sources which sell or can be harvested for email addresses.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-25 14:52  

#8  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

Along these lines, I just received a spam about half an hour ago I wish I hadn't deleted. It professed to be from some "José" dude from a United Nations anti-terrorist group claiming that since I was such a model citizen I could get some certificate of anti-terrorism support, yada, yada, yada... And the subject was "dar" instead of the usual generic subject in most spam.

Makes me wonder if this was just another front for a scam (it made no mention of money but maybe a response would generated a request) or if some Islamofascists are combing conservative blogs to harvest emails in order to get real names and addresses and build a fatwa list.
Posted by: Dar   2005-07-25 14:48  

#7  Now, can I hope to see something nasty happen to the Germanic numbnuts who keep sending the automated gambling, credit and pill comment spam to websites like mine?
It wouldn't have to be terminal... just something painful and disfiguring, with a looooong recovery time.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2005-07-25 14:42  

#6  Kushnir crossed a "partner" in one of his little enterprises. It's just a bonus to the anti-SPAM effort.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-25 14:10  

#5  Sooooo - somebody actually did what we've all been thinking.

Works for me. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-07-25 14:03  

#4  Dear sir:

This is a confidential business opportunity.

I am the widow of Vardan Kushnir. Before his death, he invested $40,000,000 in diamonds....
Posted by: Jackal   2005-07-25 14:02  

#3  Too bad. Couldn't have happened to a better man I'm sure.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-07-25 14:00  

#2  I've been getting heavy spam from Russia/East Europe on a daily basis for over a year. Since I don't have cyrillic letters installed, I can't even see/read what the f*ck they're trying to sell me
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-25 13:37  

#1  just email the body
Posted by: Captain America   2005-07-25 13:17  

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