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Russia’s Biggest Spammer Beat to Death

One of Russia’s most notorious spammers, Vardan Kushnir, was found dead in his apartment.

According to Russia’s Interfax news agency a well known spammer Vardan Kushnir an American was brutally murdered. His body was found in his apartment yesterday. Interfax sources say the man was discovered with multiple blows to his head.

The spammer, Vardan Kushnir, may have had connections to the Russian Mob, whether good or bad, it is a good possbility that they were the murderers.

His spam angered many in Russia. People bombared his phone lines with calls others posted fake escort ads with the companies phone number listed. The companies website was often hacked and Russian ISPs denied to host them.

Kushnir ran the English Language Center, which, was famous for sending out unbelievable amounts of spam, getting an email to “every Russian who appeared to have an email address”.

Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for.

“In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Center’s telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Center’s telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.”

Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S.

The company managed to successfully defeat anti-spam filtering for a long time by applying the latest tricks (garbled words to defeat filtering, text in image to defeat smart filtering, deformed images to defeat OCR).

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