{"id":397,"date":"2005-07-25T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/07\/25\/top-russian-spammer-bludgeoned-to-deat"},"modified":"2005-07-25T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T23:14:14","slug":"top-russian-spammer-bludgeoned-to-death-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/07\/25\/top-russian-spammer-bludgeoned-to-death-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Russian Spammer Bludgeoned to Death in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6413'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nspamaail.gif\" width=\"205\" height=\"163\" align=\"left\">Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each<br \/>\n        and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found<br \/>\n        dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He<br \/>\n        died after suffering repeated blows to the head.<\/p>\n<p>      Kushnir, 35, headed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_English_Center\">English learning centers <\/a>the Center for American<br \/>\n      English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English,<br \/>\n      all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions<br \/>\n      of e-mails were sent every day.<\/p>\n<p>      In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre<br \/>\n      by publishing the Center&#8217;s telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke<br \/>\n      telephone calls. The Center&#8217;s telephone was advertised as a contact number<br \/>\n      for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.\n      <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>This story is unbelieveable! The Russians<br \/>\n          certainly take their spam problem seriously.&nbsp;This is a whole different<br \/>\n          ball game than the nuclear option advocated in<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/07\/25#a6407\"> today&#8217;s<br \/>\n          Hiwatha Bray column<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>The story strikes terror in the heart of the Dowbrigade,<br \/>\n        additionally, because the guy was an ESL specialist. We will certainly<br \/>\n        limit our marketing efforts in the future, especially in the Russian<br \/>\n        market&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from<a href=\"http:\/\/mosnews.com\/news\/2005\/07\/25\/spammerdead.shtml\"> the<br \/>\n          Moscow News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/07\/25\/top-russian-spammer-bludgeoned-to-death-in-moscow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}