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Thread ID: 19277 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-07-25
2005-07-25 18:45 | User Profile
[I]"Kushnir" may well be a version of a common Ashkenazi-Jewish name "Kushner"
"Vardan", on the other hand, is an Armenian name...[/I]
[url]http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml[/url]
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[SIZE=5]Russiaââ¬â¢s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment[/SIZE]
[B]Created: 25.07.2005
MosNews[/B]
[B]Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail[/B], was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.
Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day.
In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Centerââ¬â¢s telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Centerââ¬â¢s telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.
Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for.
Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S.[/FONT]
2005-07-26 04:15 | User Profile
:rockon:
2005-07-26 04:38 | User Profile
Die spammer scum :clap:
2005-07-26 12:29 | User Profile
Would you like to grow your penis by 6 in.. Arrghhhhhhhhh! :lol:
2005-07-26 17:39 | User Profile
Out of curiosity, and after reading this same article, I googled "Kushnir." On a geneology forum I read that, in order to facilitate tax collection (or some such thing), one of the czars decreed that Jews take names describing their professions. Portnoy=tailor, Kushnir=furrier, etc. I've since read that Kushnir's murder is assumed to be just another of the vicious murders becoming more frequent in urban Russia --- and no relation to his being a detested spammer.