If you had £10 million pounds

[hyperD]

I'd buy this:



To live in, of course. Couldn't afford the opex to fly the damn thing.

[RichardCranium]

OK, what I'd really, really, really like to do with £10m.

Create some honeytrap email addresses and make them available online. Start collecting the incoming spam.

Construct a small team of techie private investigators who will communicate with the spammers as punters until they can get an identity in the way the 419 baiters do.

Recruit some mercenaries who have fewer-than-average ethics.

Have the spammers executed.

Rinse and repeat until the money runs out.

I reckon £10m should be enough to get rid of a few hundred of these parasites.

(And why no country's 'security services' didn't start doing this 15 years ago, I do not understand.)

[kandr]

OK, what I'd really, really, really like to do with £10m.

Create some honeytrap email addresses and make them available online. Start collecting the incoming spam.

Construct a small team of techie private investigators who will communicate with the spammers as punters until they can get an identity in the way the 419 baiters do.

Recruit some mercenaries who have fewer-than-average ethics.

Have the spammers executed.

Rinse and repeat until the money runs out.

I reckon £10m should be enough to get rid of a few hundred of these parasites.

(And why no country's 'security services' didn't start doing this 15 years ago, I do not understand.)

Anyone who falls for those emails only have themselves to blame. I assume by your anger, you haver been taken in?

[OwlHoot]

OK, what I'd really, really, really like to do with £10m.

Create some honeytrap email addresses and make them available online. Start collecting the incoming spam.

Construct a small team of techie private investigators who will communicate with the spammers as punters until they can get an identity in the way the 419 baiters do.

Recruit some mercenaries who have fewer-than-average ethics.

Have the spammers executed.

Rinse and repeat until the money runs out.

I reckon £10m should be enough to get rid of a few hundred of these parasites.

(And why no country's 'security services' didn't start doing this 15 years ago, I do not understand.)

Capital idea, and not just spammers.

I'd include web developers who produce sites that pop up a window saying your PC is infested with viruses, with a progress bar indicating how many dozens their app has already found, and you can't close their window without using Task Manager (and even that doesn't always work)

[RichardCranium]

Anyone who falls for those emails only have themselves to blame. I assume by your anger, you have been taken in?

I haven't. It is the inconvenience and burden upon the global economy that makes me cross.

If we implemented the death penalty for anyone who buy anything off any form of cold-calling, it would have all been stopped long ago.