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Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Behind the Spam

Wired did some digging for info about a penis enlargement pill spammer, after the spammer's website inadvertently(?) revealed its order logs...

Highlights:

- This one spammer received 6,000 orders, at $50/bottle, over the course of four weeks.
- The owner of the enterprise is a 19 year old high school dropout named Braden Bournival.

Here's my favorite part:

- Bournival's mentor and business partner is Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a chess expert and former neo-Nazi leader who turned to the spam business in 1999 after it became public that his father was Jewish.

Nice to see this Hawke fellow is climbing the evolutionary ladder... Very slowly, mind you... I mean, I'm fairly sure "spammer" is at least slightly above "neo-Nazi"... I think.
 
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