Sun, 2008-06-01
Donald Knox-Richards, Elius Books and spam permalink
I've just received (in contravention of Section 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003) a (google groups archive) spam e-mail from someone purporting to be "Donald Knox-Richards", mentioning books and John Thaw. The advertised web site was Elius Books, for which the whois record is:
$ whois elius-books.co.uk
Domain name:
elius-books.co.uk
Registrant:
Elius Books (Internet) Limited
Registrant type:
UK Limited Company, (Company number: 6163685)
Registrant's address:
6A Wellgreen Road
Childwall
Liverpool
L25 1QP
GB
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 15-May-2008
It's an unusual name, so I googled for it, and turned up this BBC
news report about someone of that name being jailed for fraud relating to a
book he wrote about John Thaw.
There's also a press release from the DTI, headlined JUDGE THROWS THE BOOK AT BANKRUPT PUBLISHER.
Other links: Ivorysky