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[LUG] US man threatens anthrax attack on spammers



US man threatens anthrax attack on spammers:

http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/34147.html

A computer programmer from Sunnyvale, California faces up to five years
in jail and a $250,000 fine after being arrested for threatening to
torture and kill employees of a spam company, Yahoo! News reports.

Charles Booher, 44, apparently snapped after his computer was deluged
with ads offering a larger penis and, presumably not requiring a larger
penis at that time, launched a terror campaign against the Canadian
company he blamed for the outrage.

Booher did not, however, restrict himself to a few shirty emails and
perhaps an angry phonecall to DM Contact Management, which dispatched
offers of the "Only Reliable, Medically Approved Penis Enhancement" on
behalf of Albion Medical.

Nope. This disgruntled spamee threatened the company with anthrax
attack, offered to "disable" one employee with a bullet and further
torture him with an ice pick and power drill. Clearly still
dissatisfied, he then declared he would hunt down and castrate employees
if they failed to remove him from the company's mailing list. During his
own personal crusade against spam, Booher used the return email address
Satan@xxxxxxxxx

Douglas Mackay, president of DM Contact Management, said: "This went for
a long, long time. He seemed really dedicated to this. He seemed like a
guy just crazy enough with nothing to lose that might actually do
something."

Of course, Mackay denied any responsibility for the spam tsunami,
claiming that a rival firm had dispatched the "unsolicited bulk e-mail".
Mackay said such firms "give a bad name to the penis enhancement
business".

Indeed, there's nothing worse than distreputable penis enhancement
outfits besmirching the good name of the penis enhancement business by
bombarding already-satisfied males with unwanted offers of donkeydom.

Well, there is one thing that's worse - sending such emails to Charles
Booher, the man for whom the phrase "spam rage" was invented.


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