What’s SPIM? SPIM is SPAM sent to instant messaging clients instead of email clients. This week a US Teenager became the first person arrested for sending SPIM after he was accused of sending more then 1.5 million unsolicited IM’s to members of MySpace.com. The police lured him to fly to Los Angeles on a business offer, then arrested him when he arrived and they were able to ID him. Here’s more on the details of the story from News.com ..
In a further twist upon the scam, Anthony Greco, 18 had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming members of the group if MySpace.com didn’t sign an exclusive marketing deal that would have legitimized the messages he was sending via the service. Greco believed he was flying to Los Angeles to cement that agreement with MySpace President Tom Anderson.