Coward Spammer Breaks From Prison And Kills His Family And Thankfully Himself

July 24th, 2006 You can easily and effectively use your .htaccess file to easily and effectively block comment and referrer spammers targeting your blog(s). If you are using WordPress you can also use my Referrer Bouncer plugin, which is much simpler, to block referrer spammers.

September 9th, 2007 Spammer of the day - Florida based Interactive Marketing Group repeatedly spammed us 86 times abusing our Contact Form touting their ImgSite[dot]net service from the IP address 85.255.121.130. They are our spammer of the day.

August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.

November 17th, 2005 This stupid and nasty spammer - my-pills.be spammed me 918 time in less than 24 hours and all the while repeatedly fetching only my home page! Guess what happens? They are into my permanent ban list. Hasta-la-vista morons - my-pills.be! After I aggresively started banning the new crop of referer spammers, my bandwidth usage has come down from last month, despite almost 50% increase of traffic! Think how much damage they are doing to everyone.

March 22nd, 2005 A year back I posted a case study on how to deal with a spammer about Richard Milford, a stupid spammer and scam artist. The case was quoted by Plaxo as I dealt with them to get him (Richard Milford the stupid spammer) removed from their system.

August 28th, 2006 The parents of 17-year-old Liam Ashley wanted to teach him a lesson for taking his mother's car without permission. They charged him with theft.

May 17th, 2006 Blue Security came with an innovative solution to target spammers - by spamming them with opt-out requests. It worked surprisingly well and spammer's were naturally not happy.

September 2nd, 2009 NY judge gives ex-Monster exec 2 years in prisonNEW YORK — The former president and chief operating officer of the online job services company Monster Worldwide has been sentenced in New York to two years in prison for stock options fraud. A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday also ordered James Treacy to forfeit $6.3 million and pay restitution of $6.3 million to the victims.

July 10th, 2009 Second man arrested in brokerage hacking schemeOMAHA, Neb. — A man has pleaded not guilty to participating in a scheme to access online brokerage accounts to jack up stock prices and reap thousands of dollars in illegal profits.

May 9th, 2009 Feds want 3-year term for Mo. mom in MySpace hoax LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors say a Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.

June 26th, 2006 A World Health Organization probe revealed that the bird flu virus mutated within an Indonesian family. An Indonesian man who died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu almost certainly caught the disease from his 10-year-old son.

March 2nd, 2009 I got this interesting spam in my comments today: Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandf What do I do? I figured someone who can stoop so low as to spam is not likely to donate his ill-gotten wealth.

June 10th, 2009 Kan. man convicted of Craigslist rape found dead KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man facing nearly 30 years in prison for raping three women who had advertised on Craigslist's former "erotic services" section apparently committed suicide in his Kansas jail cell, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

June 19th, 2005 I never thought I would rejoice the arrival of monsoon (rainy season) as much as I did this year. The summer was exceptionally hot with temparatures rising upto 55 C (Centigrade) in parts of Orissa and 50C+ in Ranchi district in West Bengal.

July 6th, 2009 Walt Disney World monorail crash kills employeeLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Officials at Walt Disney World Resort were investigating what caused the first fatal accident in the 38-year history of the park's Monorail, a one-time symbol of founder Walt Disney's vision for future transportation.