Spam Kings
by Brian S. McWilliams · first published 2004
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By far the most intriguing was Davis Wolfgang Hawke, the "spam Nazi", subject of the 2004 book Spam Kings.
on “Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27M Messages” ↗Read Spam Kings. It covers a lot of the history.
on “Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto” ↗It says in the article: > A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, Hawke was a Jewish-born American who’d legally changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum. so yeah, that's got to be a very messed up psyche, to take on the identity of your enemy.
on “Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king” ↗It says it right in the article... "A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams, Hawke was a Jewish-born American who’d legally changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum. For many years, Hawke was a big time purveyor of spam emails hawking pornography and male…
on “Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king” ↗…enough. The news of his murder was a pretty big shock locally. Everyone is talking about his youthful neo-Nazi fling but to me the most amazing part of this story is his past as a spammer. I read the book Spam Kings way back when and I clearly remember everyone hating these guys. Then fifteen years later or something, I'm chatting with one of those same guys at some local crag without knowing it. I know it's a cliche,…
on “Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king” ↗