Russia. Student spams 400 people with death threat

A 20-year-old Russian sent out four hundred death threats ("Death to Russian pigs and to you, freak!") to random phone numbers, according to Russia Today.

"Authorities tracked down the sender, who was in fact Russian, by tracing the phone number he had used. As Anton Shurubara explained to authorities upon his arrest, "I was just joking around. I wanted to see what people's reactions would be."

The court's reaction was that the mass text message amounted to racial hatred and a provocation to extremism, and placed him on one year of probation."

emily | 5:51 PM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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