On this day in history, 1994, when Lawrence Kanter and Martha Siegel, a couple of immigration lawyers, launched the world's first large-scale commercial Internet spam activity, he was punished by hook or by crook (see the facts attached below), was expelled from the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and used Perl scripts to send spam to more than five people. In about 90 minutes, it is on the news group. The purpose of this large-scale spam is to publicize their services and help people fill out and submit appropriate forms to enter the "green card lottery", that is, the diversified immigrant visa lottery.
According to Kanter, this script works like this: "... a Perl script, which only gets the names of all newsgroups from a specific server, one at a time, and then sends messages to them through various Internet protocols widely used at that time.
In addition to the exploitative nature of a lot of spam, their service also charges $95 (for individuals) or $65,438+045 (for couples) to help people participate in the lucky draw. Although it sounds reasonable, you can ask a lawyer to help you fill out the form. It is worth noting that at that time, what people really needed to do was to send a postcard or a letter with your name and address to the designated address in the State Council, USA, within the time of receiving registration.
Even today, the process of participating in the lottery is quite simple (although once selected, it is completely another matter, and the law Committee is sometimes wise. You only need to submit an electronic form (free of charge) on the website of the State Council at the beginning of registration. Although it is easy to get into lottery tickets, many spammers still try to lure people to pay for betting services. Modern green card spammers also tend to promise that they can increase someone's chances of being selected, which is of course impossible.
Despite this simplicity, Kanter and Siegel made a lot of money in this spam, and the result is estimated to be $654.38 million+200,000. According to them, this large-scale spam has not been well accepted by newsgroup users. The next day, thousands of emails were sent to InternetDirect, the Internet provider of the two companies, complaining about them. In the next two days, it successfully crashed the mail server of Internet Direct several times.
Kanter and Siegel have consulted InternetDirect before to ensure that the company is satisfied with what they are going to do, and can handle their posting to thousands of boards quickly and continuously, which will inevitably lead to a backlash (including emails and negative complaints from people who want to hire Kanter and Siegel). InternetDirect said their system could handle it, so Kanter and Siegel opened an account to continue. However, due to the rebound, within a few days, InternetDirect terminated Kanter and Siegel's accounts, resulting in the loss of about 25,000-50,000 emails, some of which may make a lot of spam more profitable. Therefore, Siegel and two other lawyers she brought threatened to sue the Internet directly if their accounts were not reactivated immediately, but the Internet refused. Kanter and Siegel did not file an actual lawsuit against them.
After the first attack, they released another "advertisement" to about 1000 newsgroups in June, which triggered the first "cancelbot" program, which would grab newsgroups and automatically delete spam within minutes after the release.
As you expected, Kanter and Siegel were slandered in the court of public opinion, but equally boldly, they began to promote their services as "experts" in online marketing, and formulated and implemented "deliberately distorted plans". About a year later, Kanter resigned as a national lawyer to avoid additional charges of "dereliction of duty, distortion of facts, misappropriation of client funds and perjury". At this time, the two moved to Arizona, where they started their internship. In the early days of chat rooms, chatters usually used a lot of meaningless words to harass other groups. For example, Star Trek chatters will invade a Star Wars chat room and post a lot of messy words, making people in Star Wars unable to speak. The battle of nerds! ! ! On the other hand, although Star Trek is far superior to Star Wars as a whole, just as I like the latter, including all subsequent books, including the Heir to the Empire series, which is an extraordinary work, the Enterprise (only half a mile long) will not be able to compete with the executive-class super Star Destroyer (12 miles long, full of weapons). This is not to mention the fighter arsenal it is equipped with. Whether the Enterprise is an imperial (1 mile long) or a victorious (56-mile long) star destroyer remains to be discussed. /Shortly after Kanter and Siegel devoted themselves to spam, Joel Furr, a student in North Carolina, who was one of the first people to describe Internet spam, began to sell T-shirts with the pattern of "Green Card Lawyer: Global Spam". These t-shirts are very popular. When Kantor Siegel heard about it, they threatened to sue him, claiming that "... any form of similarity, or using our names or nicknames in any form without our explicit written permission, is something you don't have, and of course it is not established, because Foer never explicitly mentioned their names in words or pictures. Nevertheless, he announced that he would stop selling these shirts because he couldn't afford legal counsel, but the chief legal adviser of the Electronic Border Foundation (EFF) told him that he didn't have to worry about the lawsuit against Kantor and Siegel, because: "1) Kantor and Siegel are not members of the Arizona Bar Association; 2) They are being investigated by Tennessee Bar Association; 3) They can only sue in the state where Foer does business; (4) They don't have the trademark of "green card lawyer". Joel Foer first mentioned "spam" in the news group on1March 3, 9931. The first known example is that it is called spam in newsgroups. This is often wrongly said to be the first time to use the word spam to refer to spam anywhere. When the first word "spam" appeared in the newsgroup, Richard Depp was playing with some gentle software. As an unexpected result, about 200 duplicate messages were continuously posted to the news.admin.policy newsgroup. Joel Fur later called it spam. Depew himself apologized that his message was spam. Austin, Minnesota is called "the hometown of spam in America", not because of internet spam, but because it produces all food spam sold in North America, South America and Australia. Spam sold in Britain is produced by tulip company in Denmark, and hommel has issued a production license to this company. Hawaii, Guam and the Federated States of the Northern Mariana Islands eat the most garbage per capita in the United States, with an average of 16 cans per person per year. Both Hawaii and Guam have McDonald's restaurants that provide spam, and Burger King in Hawaii has also provided spam since 2007 to better compete with McDonald's. Spam is sometimes called "Hawaiian steak" because it is very popular there. In 2009, Cisco released the following spam source data by country: Brazil 7.7%, the United States 6.6%, India 3.6%, South Korea 3. 1%, Turkey 2.6%, Vietnam 2.6%, China 2.5%, Poland 2.4%, Russia 2.3% and Argentina 6,544. You have to rank 9 1 on the list. I think only so many rulers will die and leave us their property, so maybe this explains the lack of spam. In all spam, about 73% people try to steal the identity of users in some way (phishing), including possible bank information or get enough information from users to open new credit accounts. Of the 90 trillion emails sent in 2009, 8 1% were spam, which is equivalent to sending about 200 billion spam messages every day. Expand the reference and start its spam. Martha Siegel, the father of modern spam chat. Newsgroup News Group Spam Lawrence Kanter and Martha Siegel Internet History Joel Fall Image Source