Genius of the Day

Correspondent:: "Modemac"
Date: 21 Jan 2005 04:49:19 -0800

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No, I didn't say SubGenius. A typical SubGenius would probably do
something even dumber than this...but don't ask me how that's possible.

Tsunami spam scammer cuffed
By Lester Haines
Published Wednesday 19th January 2005 13:55 GMT

A man from Pittsburgh has had his collar felt by the FBI after
allegedly sending out 800,000 bogus Tsunami appeal emails, Silicon
reports.

XXXXXXX XXXXXXX was quickly traced by UK spambusters Spamhaus after
attempting to fleece netizens of cash with his "fundraising messages".
Spamhaus' Steve Linford noted that the swift apprehension of the "rank
amateur" ne'er-do-well was due to his failure to cover his tracks.

Linford noted: "He had very little in place by way of defences and upon
first seeing the emails we were able to very quickly track him down to
Pittsburgh. He lived right around the corner from the FBI offices there
and they were able to leave the office and pick up him right away."\