Davis Wolfgang Hawke | |
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 Hawke in September 2005 | |
| Born | Andrew Britt Greenbaum October 21, 1978 Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Disappeared | March 1, 2006 Laramie, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, 2017 (aged 38) Squamish, British Columbia, Canada |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wound |
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| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Spammer, neo-Nazi |
Davis Wolfgang Hawke (born Andrew Britt Greenbaum; October 21, 1978 – June 14, 2017) was an American fraudster. In 2004, Hawke was sued by AOL under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 for spamming thousands of email addresses with millions of junk mail as part of his internet advertisement business for non-existent goods and services. Hawke had already gained media attention in 1999 as a college student for starting two neo-Nazi groups that publicly had the goal to "make the Final Solution a reality",[1] before it was revealed that he had been hiding the fact that he was actually Jewish,[2] leading to him being dubbed "Spam Nazi" by the press following the AOL lawsuit.[3]
Hawke disappeared in 2006. He was found dead from a gunshot in a burned out car while under a fake name in Squamish, Canada, in 2017 and remained an unidentified decedent until he was identified in October 2020.[4]
- ^ "American Nationalist Party". Anti-Defamation League. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-09. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
- ^ Potok, Mark (Spring 1999). "Violence, Hate and Youth". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
- ^ "Meet the spam Nazi". Salon.com. 2003-07-29. Archived from the original on 2007-07-14. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
- ^ "Burned homicide victim found inside Squamish, B.C., vehicle in 2017 identified as U.S. resident". 2020.