| To be beaten to death is one thing, but for it to be linked
with spam emails is quite another. Unfortunately for a notorious
Russian spammer it has been a tragedy.
Vardan Kushnir, Russia's most notorious spammer was found
dead on Wednesday 27th in his Moscow apartment after having
been beaten to death.
Russia's 14 million Internet users are said to have greeted
the news of Vardan Kushnir's demise with 'thinly veiled jubilation',
after he had spent years stuffing their inboxes with advertisements
for his American Language Center.
However, revenge by an overburdened email user or a contract
killing, was ruled out by Moscow police who said that he had
been hit several times on the head with a heavy object and
his apartment was ransacked. They explained that he met two
girls at a nightclub whom he invited back to his flat where
they drugged him
'An ultimate solution to the spam problem' is just one of
the headlines used by the Russian media who have had a field
day over the murder.
Russia's Government had to intervene at one stage due to
Kushnir's spamming being so high profile. They set up an automatic
phone dialler to call his office 1,000 times in a single morning.
The volume of emails containing spam in Russia is to such
a high extent that emails from the .ru domain are routinely
blocked by the country's Internet users and often by Web servers
in other countries. This is due to the fact that the country
has no anti-spam laws.
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Source: BBC
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