DU has received more than a healthy dose of spam from this guy. Making as much money as he did, I can’t see mere death as stopping spam anytime soon, though.
Russian Viagra and Penis Enlargement Spammer Murdered
Wow, just saw this on TV, so I decided to translate this story into English so my readers will be first to learn this. Sorry for mistakes in my English, I’m doing this in a hurry :)
Alexey Tolstokozhev (btw, in Russian his name means ‘Thick Skin’), a Russian spammer, found murdered in his luxury house near Moscow. He has been shot several times with one bullet stuck in his head. According to authorities, this last head shot is a clear mark of russian hit men (known as “killers” in Russia).
Who hated Tolstokozhev so much as to hire a hit man to assasinate him? Well, I guess you have about one billion e-mail users to suspect. Tolstokozhev was a famous spammer who sent millions of e-mail promoting viagra, cialis, penis enlargement pills and other medications. Links in these e-mails usually led to some pharmacy shop, which paid Tolstokozhev a share of its revenue. This is a well known affiliate scheme employed by spammers worldwide. Tolstokozhev is estimated to be responsible for up to 30% percent of all viagra and penis enlargement related spam.
UPDATE: Well, it appears this is a hoax. Too bad. Check out the comments for info.
Apparenty it’s a hoax: Russian Spammer Hoax
Would have been cool if it hadn’t been though…
😉
I sent his family 80,000 condolence messages.
check it out –i thought this sounded familiar, and lo — i am seeing a pattern here
here’s from an article in wired from 2005
link
from everything i’ve read, russia is the worst place to dally in the underworld.
spam sucks, but there are many wretched souls walking the earth that should have taken those bullets, but i digress
http://tinyurl.com/3e2p4y
Now… how does this jive with “i get no spam”?
He’s dead ??? Now I’ll never get that penis enlarger !!!
I used to be proud of all 13 1/2”, but that email was so persuasive.
Without the helpful information these mass emailed advertisements provide, how will I ever know what to buy?
If I was this guy right now, I’d be vewy vewy vorried.
Mr. Fusion – didn’t you mean 13½ mm?
#10, Aahhh, Hopper, you really know how to make the truth hurt.
I read that this may have not actually been the case after all 🙁
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/12/russian_spammer_murder/