Name: Anonymous 2010-04-27 8:15
April 12, 1994: Immigration Lawyers Invent Commercial Spam
By Ryan Singel
1994: Members of more than 6,000 Usenet discussion groups find themselves the recipients of a message imploring them to use the legal services of Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel to ensure their place in line for a green card from the U.S. government.
It didn’t matter that most recipients had no need for such services. They’d just been spammed by a company — for the first time in the net’s history.
Canter and Siegel went on to notoriety, claiming they’d made $100,000 from their Perl-script spamming. The two remained unrepentant, despite the backlash which led them to lose their hosting and even get Canter disbarred.
The husband-and-wife duo went on to create a spam-advertising company and pen a how-to entitled How to Make a FORTUNE on the Information Superhighway
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t699312/
By Ryan Singel
1994: Members of more than 6,000 Usenet discussion groups find themselves the recipients of a message imploring them to use the legal services of Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel to ensure their place in line for a green card from the U.S. government.
It didn’t matter that most recipients had no need for such services. They’d just been spammed by a company — for the first time in the net’s history.
Canter and Siegel went on to notoriety, claiming they’d made $100,000 from their Perl-script spamming. The two remained unrepentant, despite the backlash which led them to lose their hosting and even get Canter disbarred.
The husband-and-wife duo went on to create a spam-advertising company and pen a how-to entitled How to Make a FORTUNE on the Information Superhighway
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t699312/