Viagra Spammer muder a hoax?

inkslinger77 writes: "This is a pretty interesting example of how and why rumors spread on the internet: Blogger Alex Loonov wrote yesterday (http://loonov.com/russian-viagra-and-penis-enlargement-spammer-murdered.htm#) about 'Tolstokozhev's' murder after apparently seeing it on Russian television. He wrote that a Russian spammer named Alexey Tolstokozhev (whose name in Russian apparently means 'Thick Skin') was found murdered in his luxury house near Moscow..." The 'news' spread, leading security professionals to comment on it and how it is most likely a hoax. They speculate in this article on the motives for such a hoax: it could be to increase traffic to the blogger's site, or to scare away spammers. A Russian malware expert even suggests possible motives in the "unlikely" possibility that the post is legitimate."