>The father of the deceased, Hy Greenbaum, has offered a $10,000 reward to any tipster who can help solve his son’s homicide.<p>My heart goes out to parents who may disagree with their children, but can't help but love them.
> led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999<p>Correction: He failed at attempting the anti-government march, not that the anti-government march failed. Maybe it was related to Seattle WTO, but the march he tried to create never actually happened. According to CBC <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/father-greenbaum-mass-reward-10k-davis-wolfgang-hawke-missing-dead-1.5784697" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/father-green...</a>
I thought this was going to be Adam Guerbuez, <i>another</i> neo-nazi candadian "spam king" that Facebook bankrupted in Canada a few years ago. That's not all, he also murdered someone outside of a bar in 2000, and is responsible for those old "bum fight" videos from back in the day. Now he's a BTC scammer, of all things.
This is a dupe (Or maybe people would be happier if I said "Previously on HN..."):<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955454" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955454</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031614" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031614</a>
I could understand why a lot of people would want to do something like that to him, he seemed like a real shitbag, but it does make you wonder just who he pissed off bad enough for them to track him down and brutally murder him like that.<p>I remember back when they first found the body, there was some worry there was a random killer in the area. The squamish highway has a pretty bad reputation for murders as it is. But, this seems like something premeditated.
Is there evidence he actually cared about the neo-nazi bit, and it wasn't just another sham identity? The guy sounds absolutely amoral, and neo-nazis seem like they'd be easy marks.
I've actually met this guy in the past, after he moved to BC and reinvented himself. His provided name of "Jesse James" was obviously fake and he was clearly sketchy (he claimed to have a PhD in physics, was the CEO of some AI-related startup, and various other outlandish things, and all that within the first ten minutes of speaking with him) but he seemed friendly enough.<p>The news of his murder was a pretty big shock locally. Everyone is talking about his youthful neo-Nazi fling but to me the most amazing part of this story is his past as a spammer. I read the book Spam Kings way back when and I clearly remember everyone hating these guys. Then fifteen years later or something, I'm chatting with one of those same guys at some local crag without knowing it. I know it's a cliche, but life is strange.
Oh man the caliber of the comments on KOS is way lower than I expected.<p>How does such a great author get such poor comment quality? It's kinda sad :(
Hmm, I was getting a 403 error trying to access this page, apparently because I was using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1/WARP service on iOS. When I switched to 1.1.1.1 DNS only, the problem went away. Does Krebs block visitors who appear to be using VPNs?
Reminds me of the movie The Believer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Believer_(film)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Believer_(film)</a> but in that case the Jewish neo-nazi wasn't a spam king, and really he killed himself in a very round about way.
What is up with jews who become nazis? I remember some years ago there was this jewish kid that played both European nationalists and Australian Islamists. I think his name was Joshua Ryne Goldberg or something like that. He wrote for the dailystormer too... Tried to make both sides commit acts of terrorism.<p>He basically ran every controversial subreddit at the time under his nick "European88".
Odds are he was neither the Nazi of his Hawke persona nor the progressive vegan of his Jesse James persona but a psychopath who enjoyed messing with people and found claiming these identities useful to that end.