[NetBehaviour] Former spammer: 'I know I'm going to hell'.

[marc garrett]

Former spammer: 'I know I'm going to hell'.


A retired spammer predicts the problem will only get worse, aided by 
consumers who still buy products and faster broadband speeds.

"Ed," a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails 
that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says 
he pulled in US$10,000 to US$15,000 a week, storing the money in US$20 
bills in stacks of boxes.

It was a life of greed and excess, one that preyed especially on 
vulnerable people hoping to score drugs or win money gambling on the 
Internet. From when he was expelled from high school at 17 until he quit 
his spam career at 22, Ed -- who does not reveal his full name but 
sometimes goes by SpammerX -- was part of an electronic underworld 
profiting from the Internet via spam.

"Yes, I know I'm going to hell," said Ed, who spoke in London on 
Wednesday at an event hosted by IronPort Systems, a security vendor now 
owned by Cisco Systems "I'm actually a really nice guy. Trust me."

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