Saturday, January 1, 2011

Moscow Spammer Arrested in U.S.

Spammer MasterMind Busted

A vacationing or business trip took a man to jail for spamming. The 23 year old Moscow resident is reported to have been under investigation since 2007 and has ended up in Federal Court in Wisconsin. The botnet "Mega-D" is the catalyst the spammer used to gather computers into a botnet to send the reported millions up to billions alleged messages per day, accounting for 32% of the world's spam (?...really, one-third of emails?). Supposedly he is the "mastermind" behind the indulgence of email spam.

The alleged emails sent by alleged subject was reported at around ten billion daily. Supposedly the botnets were used to sell counterfeit goods.

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