Spam Does Good?

Posted on December 23, 2005
Filed Under /dev/null/ | 75 views |

You’ve probably already seen the spam du jour going around that purports to be from the FBI and then asks for a bunch of personal information from the recipient, presumably so the spammer can then steal their identity.

Boingboing reports that some dumbass in Germany received the email and promptly turned himself into police. Upon further investigation they discovered copious amounts of kiddie porn on his computer. Spam: 1, cops: 1, society: 1, dumbass: 0.

Synopsis of the story from F-Secure.

A guilty conscience is a wonderful thing.

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