Thread: SPAM Does Work.
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Old August 31, 2003, 08:01 AM
Boyd Stone
 
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Default Really? My Mama taught me "Crime Does Not Pay" [DNO]

dno
> Who says SPAM doesn't work!

> LEAD STORIES

> Wired magazine reported in August that an
> order screen at the big e-mail spammer,
> Amazing Internet Products, was left
> unsecured and was hacked into recently,
> revealing not only an inexplicably large
> sales volume (6,000 orders in four weeks for
> $50 Pinacle cream that promised to increase
> penis size by up to 3 inches) but some
> prominent, should-know-better customers,
> such as the manager of a $6 billion mutual
> fund in New York City. Wired (and earlier,
> Salon magazine) reported that AIP's two
> principals are a 19-year-old high-school
> dropout and chess vagabond and a
> 20-something former head of a neo-Nazi
> outfit. [Wired, 8-6-03; Salon,7-29-03]