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Believing the denials of spammers

Now and then spammers I’ve outed have told me I got it wrong. And sometimes I do. Similar MO’s may lead to me grouping two spamming operations together and tagging one spammer with another’s work.

But it’s a tough call to say whether a spammer is telling the truth when he denies having done a particular spamrun.

Here’s one story where they’ve cornered someone named Brendan Battles who denies having spammed. Yet the circumstantial evidence they’ve uncovered seems pretty strong:

Computerworld > Spam king sets up in New Zealand?

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One Response to “Believing the denials of spammers”

  1. Ed Falk Says:
    March 22nd, 2006 at 6:40 pm

    Update for you: He’s admitted to the press that he’s the guy. See Spam Kings article http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/us_spam_king_co.html

    Oh, and another fun read is “The three stages of the chickenboner”: http://www.rahul.net/falk/3stages.txt

    The first stage is known as “Who, little old me?” That’s where Battles was last week.

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