Spammer Beaten To Death<\/strong><\/p>\nThe director of an English language center and one of the country?s most notorious spammers was found beaten to death in his apartment in central Moscow, police said Monday.<\/p>\n
[…] Andrei Kashutin, the managing director of IT Dvizhenia, an industry association of nearly 7,000 IT students and young professionals, said Kushnir and his company were the most well-known spammers in Russia, sending millions of unsolicited e-mail messages offering English classes at the American Language Center. “Anybody who regularly uses e-mail has come across their spam,” Kashutin said.<\/p>\n
It is probably unlikely that his killing was actually associated with his spamming activities — unless one wants to posit the efficacy of prayer, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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