I don’t blame anyone for not posting publicly. I had an idea of what I was taking on and with preparation I was still caught unawares…
So, unless you have a few days up your sleeve stick to anonymous phone calls… 😮
Jeroen believes himself untouchable and with good reason. Most spammers get away with it quite simply because they can and they make money. Why stop when you send 7 million emails that may have a 0.5% buy rate for viagra/bigger boobs et al? 0.5% is 35,000 purchasing customers. At even $1 commission per customer per month….
Easy to believe yourself too clever, and this will be his undoing. Who knows the name of one spammer? I do. This one.
Let alone his address, phone number and record of public admission to spreading trojans, reselling stolen software, selling e-gold account retrieval software etc.
No, it doesn’t hurt, but is a major inconvenience and I recommend anyone without the time and resources to stay clear. Save the hip hoorays for when the little beggar is in jail or hospital with severe injuries (hey, he might fall in front of a bus), whichever comes first.
Bullying irks me and it always has. I stood up to my first at 12 years of age in the UK, the playground type. A kid that had made my first 6 months at school a living nightmare of abuse and fear of even going to school or getting on the bus.
My courage came, not when he was picking on me, but when he put a classmate through a plate glass window head first and 150 witnesses turned away. That classmate was happy girl and 2 years of platic surgery changed that forever.
It is definable by the same untouchable attitude and “I am better than everyone else”. Where it comes from, I don’t know, an abusive childhood, genetic abnormality or what.
The one thing I believe in this, is that no little prick has the right to make anyone’s life a misery because his life is miserable spiritually/socially.
There is no plate glass window here but I feel the mentality behind the motivation is the same. Intimidation doesn’t work on me anymore.