UK's biggest Spammer on the run from police

[Vanhalen]

Britain's most prolific spammer, 23-year-old Peter Francis-Macrae, is on the run from both the police and UK domain registry Nominet after he finally pushed his luck too far.

 

 

 

 

Francis-Macrae, who lives in the tiny village of St Neots in Cambridgeshire with his father, failed to turn up to a hearing at Huntington Magistrates court and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. He is charged with five criminal counts from threats to kill, sending offensive messages and threatening to burn a trading standards office that was investigating him for a variety of Internet scams.

 

Meanwhile, the organisation in charge of all .uk domains, Nominet, has won an injunction against Mr Francis-Macrae and his company Ultra Technologies that prevents him from: causing any damage to Nominet's computer systems; harassing Nominet staff; using the .uk Whois database; and sending any apparent domain re-registration documents. Any breach of these conditions would see him in contempt of court with a possible jail sentence.

 

Nominet decided to take Mr Francis-Macrae to court after he sent domain re-registration forms to Nominet customers, telling them they needed to renew their domain immediately. Nominet claims he passed himself off as connected to it - when in fact he is not even a Nominet member or entitled to act directly as a domain seller - and that he abused Nominet's copyright on the Whois domain registry.

[Guest Smues]

Anything that hurts a spammer is fine by me. I hope he gets killed in jail.