It's a start at least.

Apparently the leading Russian "v!4gr4" spammer was recently found murdered, apparently by the mafia.

Let's hear it for the mafia! (...and how often is it you get to say that) ...although perhaps next time they'll just break a hand's-worth of fingers as a warning first. Spammers can [i]probably[/i] be rehabilitated just like any other criminal, so there's not much sense in wasting them like that.

Spammers: Four Zillion, Russian Mafia: 2