Vanhalen 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2004 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smues Report post Posted December 2, 2004 Anything that hurts a spammer is fine by me. I hope he gets killed in jail. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
