419 Scammer Caught!

Here’s the fascinating account of the arrest of a 419 spammer in a Dublin Internet cafe. It is a lengthy but good read, and the following thread brings up some interesting points about the legality of listening to Internet traffic.
Later… and it made it on to slashdot! Thankfully the linked page on linux.ie is the static archive page I linked to above. I think we’ll survive the slashdotting!
And we made it on to the Register too!


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Scam (1 comments.) on July 20, 2007 at 12:32 pm.

The account link isn’t working – do you have the original referenced anywhere else?

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Donncha (1707 comments.) on July 20, 2007 at 3:13 pm.

I think the emails were removed from the archive for legal reasons. Maybe some day they’ll surface again.

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