Reported Assassination of Russian Spammer a Hoax
 

"We got the feeling pretty quickly that it was a hoax," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee's Avert Labs. "It just became obvious that either this was somebody's idea of a joke or they were using a real person's name and trying to associate him with being a spammer."

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