E-commerce > On the Internet, No One Knows You're a Criminal
WIRED: Swollen Orders Show Spam's Allure. A spammer left his order logs exposed. He had 6,000 orders for $100 each. The product? Penis enlargement pills.
WIRED: A Support Group for Spammers. A spammer's community web site fails to secure their mailing list, leaving the spammer's emails exposed. Gee, that doesn't give me any ideas. These guys have great security, huh?
FAST COMPANY: Catch Me If You Can. A scammer named Jay Nelson tricked eBay and Yahoo users out of tens of thousands of dollars before being arrested and convicted. He's scheduled to be released in 2007.
What slays me about this guy is that he started this while his wife was pregnant. Is that anyone's idea of a good plan? "Baby's gonna need an education IRA. I best commence to do me some robbin'." Paternity does strange things to some guys.
Posted by lesjones