“Spam King,” who defied nearly $1B in default judgments, sentenced to 2.5 years

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16 points·jackgavigan··5 comments

I used to work for the "original" spam king[0] at 2K Services in Montreal. Didn't realize how shady he was, friend of mine got me a job there. I got fired while on vacation because the office admin overheard me saying that, at some point in the future, I'd like to do something different than programming.

(The something different I ended up doing: systems administration.)

I was only an employee for six weeks, but I (and my friend who worked there) got a fair number of ridiculous stories. I lamented the day I took that job off my resume and no longer had a great answer to the question "and why did you leave that position so quickly?"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kuvayev

How does a $1B default judgement work when it's clear that a person does not have the money and will likely not be able to earn it even over their lifetime?

Bankruptcy?

That's what Adam Guerbuez did I believe.

Perhaps it's a little like receiving multiple life sentences -- deliberate overkill. With the multiple life sentences even if per some great stroke of luck you get one reduced or time off for good behavior, the others will keep you imprisoned. Likewise with such a big default judgement even if he manages to acquire a lot of money he likely won't be able to do damage on the scale he's been doing again.

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