Funfair from my former employer
[link|http://www.tsaag-fahbo.com/|[link|http://www.tsaag-fahbo.com/|http://www.tsaag-fahbo.com/]]
Someone using the alias of "D. Mole" had spammed us with emails coming from a certain ISP that hosted this web page listed above. It is an acronym that the lawfirm uses for a staff party they have every year. The Summer Associates Are Gone - Fall Associates Have Been Oriented. In 2001, "D. Mole" appeared with the website and wouldn't give us the password until later. It is "BadPoetry" no spaces, no quotes. B and P capiltaized.
When we checked the domain name registration, it was apparently in my manager's name. "D. Mole" also appeared to use the same sort of programming HTML style and MsThemes as my manager liked to use. But the domain registration was changed to someone else's name. Nobody was able to find the original registration, but the credit card used was the same one that my manager had access to. There were other clues that lead to other managers as well. Whoever did this had access to 1995 Powerpoint slides, which my manager did because he worked for the firm for over a dozen years. But other managers had motives to frame him, because they were Anti-IT in nature.
Since 2000, the TSSAG-FAHBO was turned into an Anti-IT event, the table I was at in 2000 had people doing IT-bashing (not from the IT Department, other departments) and I was told not to reply back to them in a negative way. Of course, somebody seems to think that this sort of thing is funny. Only management seems to be laughing about it.
When I was there, I forwarded the spam from "D. Mole" to the ISP that the IP can from and complained about it. My manager fired back that someone complained about the mole, and we shall never hear from him again. But "D. Mole" sent more mail a week after that. Hmmmm.
