Has Scott Richter Really Gone Legit?
from the so-they-say... dept
Scott Richter was, for a time, considered one of the top spam kings out there. In the book, Spam Kings, Richter is portrayed as someone who continually goes back and forth over whether to be legit or whether be a normal spammer -- though, in practice, it certainly looked like the temptation to spam was too strong. Richter has been involved in a number of lawsuits, including one in New York where he received a slap on the wrist and told to stop spamming. Richter also recently filed for bankruptcy, but it wasn't because he was broke -- but because he wanted to protect himself from another lawsuit (this one from Microsoft). In fact, the details showed that the supposedly "bankrupt" Richter was doing quite well. With his reputation, many will certainly be surprised to hear that he may have actually gone legit after all of this. Brian McWilliams reports that Richter has been removed from the infamous "ROKSO" list (Registry of Known Spam Operations), often considered the most complete and detailed list of spammers. Anti-spammers have been watching him closely, and apparently have been unable to find any spam associated with Richter in many months, leading to his removal from the list. If it's true, it would be impressive -- so here's hoping that he's really become a reformed spammer.
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Personally.... by w.h. on Jul 20th, 2005 @ 4:41am
....I'd prefer it as getting out while the getting was good and trying to live off of his ill-gained profits.
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He's farming it out. by b0b on Jul 20th, 2005 @ 10:13am
He simply has other companies doing the dirty work now. Pretty simple.
Jumpstart Technologies, LLC, based in San Francisco is one of them. I remember seeing a list of top 10 spammers and a note from an exec asking "Why aren't we doing business with these people?" - also, Scotty Richter was a business partner.
Spam makes a LOT of money, sadly..
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He's still dirty as ever by Not Scott on May 26th, 2006 @ 12:19pm
We have heard from people who fell for one of his scams and are looking to redeem their price. Unfortunately, his random choice of company names ended up screwing us. He is as big a spammer as ever, but with Daddy on board, they're covering as much of their tracks as they can.
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Scott is still spamming the world by David on Dec 4th, 2007 @ 6:30pm
Everybody in the business knows Scott Richter is still America's biggest spammer and his various companies sends out millions of illegal emails a day (once 100 million a day). He covers his tracks by using affiliated companies.
Don't know why authorities won't clamp down on him. Tap his phone for 15 minutes and they'll hear all!
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by self help on Jun 19th, 2008 @ 2:05am
very interesting.
i've read about this in a few articles.
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