[Peter]

LONDON - British police said on Monday they had charged a man with sending hoax emails to relatives of people missing since the Asian tsunami, saying their loved ones had been confirmed dead.The hoaxer, claiming to be from the "Foreign Office Bureau" in Thailand, targeted people who had placed appeals for information about relatives and friends on the Web site of TV station Sky News. Police said a 40-year-old man from Lincolnshire in northeastern England was charged with malicious communication and causing a public nuisance. He was due to appear at a London court on Monday. On Sunday, officers seized computer equipment in a joint operation by London's Metropolitan Police and Lincolnshire police. All the messages came from one bogus email address, [email protected]. "The British government would not use email to convey news of the death of a loved one," police said. "Anyone receiving such an email should treat it with utmost caution." Sky News said it was "disgusted" at the abuse of the message board on its Web site and had contacted police as soon as it was alerted to the hoaxes. The death toll from the tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off western Indonesia a week ago, stood at almost 130,000 on Monday, including at least 40 Britons.

[roberto blanco]

what a f*cking pr1ck. unbelievable.

[storer]

Originally posted by roberto blanco:
what a f*cking pr1ck. unbelievable.

that is the most deplorable thing that I have ever heard of a human doing.

[DeathToWindows]

Originally posted by storer:
that is the most deplorable thing that I have ever heard of a human doing.

haven't read much history have you?

Can someone please cap the spammer?

[Mohammed Al-Sabah]

wish they would sue spam mailers too !