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Chinese Justice 

Posted Tuesday 20th May 2008 11:52 GMT

Scammers operating out of China must be either uniquely courageous or uniquely greedy, given the Chinese authorities robust approach to law and order which so often appears to involve a bullet in the back of the head.

A practice I'd normally deplore.

But in this case.......

It's Ok 

Posted Tuesday 20th May 2008 11:55 GMT

Unhappy

if they are based in China, expect a few executions next year...and maybe the Chinese goverment will do something about hacking sites outside of their country.

Cut and paste comment number whatever 

Posted Tuesday 20th May 2008 12:05 GMT

Paypal involved in a scam. I don't believe it.

Other than that pondlife is too good a description for some forms of human nature.

@Chris W 

Posted Tuesday 20th May 2008 12:58 GMT

as Cyrus the virus said in Con Air, they're somewhere between a cockroach and the scum that collects in the corner of your mouth

pond life 

Posted Tuesday 20th May 2008 13:03 GMT

I refer the learned reader to the comment above. Death REALLY is too good for some people.

Let them eat cake... 

Posted Tuesday 20th May 2008 14:16 GMT

Given the record of "official" websites with legitimate donations:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/

and add to that the efforts of spammers and scammers, you can begin to understand the mentality of the Burmese regime...

Put em in... 

Posted Wednesday 21st May 2008 05:09 GMT

Thumb Down

... a special room full of earthquake debris, shake them for 24 hours and then let in cyclonic strength winds!

Make em suffer.

Boring excitement 

Posted Friday 23rd May 2008 01:33 GMT

Sure beats Daniel Cuthbert's break into the DEC website a few years ago..

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