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Russia, China World's Biggest Spammers
An anonymous reader writes "According to this ZDNet article, The Spamhaus Project has warned that organised cirminal gangs in Russia are supplying U.S.-based spammers with details of compromised PCs that can be manipulated to send junk mail. According to Spamhaus director Steve Linford, the Russian gangs aren't constrained by any anti-spam or cybercrime laws in their home country and have no respect for legislation implemented in other countries. Also, apparently 70 percent of spam is sent from China by American spam outfits who in turn have hosting arrangements with Chinese ISPs."
to see them embrace captialism so readily
we should be proud!
back in the day we didnt have no old school
Russia for mafia controlled zombies
China for high quality spam warez
Africa for business relations about that recently deceased relative.
GOT IT!
-Grump
Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
President Bush just outlawed China forever. We start bombing in five minutes.
Seems like every day we have a story about such-and-such is the biggest cause of spam. In fact, I bet we've accounted for at least 400% of spam with all these stories combined.
If these trends continue, I'm afraid that one day soon I'll check slashdot and find out that 97% of all spam is coming from my IP.
Dear Sir,
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Sincerely yours,
DOCTOR M. BOKUZUWANDI
So which is it, then?
It's both. They use non-Euclidean statistics.
The USA is quite obviously the source of the spam. It is up to the USA to legislate in some way to stop the flood of spam that is hurting people all over the world. The real question is: how do you stop the spam when it is being sent from countries like China where the USA has no power to arrest spammers?
Hey, what a brilliant idea. We currently have only a hundred or more anti-spam laws across the world, most in the US. Let's pass a few more. I am certain that when we pass the 500 anti-spam law mark, spammers will suddenly start to cower in their boots and realize that 500 anti-spam laws that aren't being enforced or have no legal/civil/criminal teeth are a formidible obstacle to overcome!
"According to Spamhaus director Steve Linford, the Russian gangs aren't constrained by any anti-spam or cybercrime laws in their home country and have no respect for legislation implemented in other countries."
Criminals with no respect for the law! This world is surely going to the dogs!
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Dmitri: So Vladimir, whatever area do you specialize in these days? ...
Vladimir: Smuggling, my friend. Vodka, narcotics, humans... If it can be smuggled, chances are I smuggled it some time...
Dmitri: Sounds good, how about you, Ivan?
Ivan: Weapons trade, of course. Got a few good high-up friends in the Red Army that are willing to relinquish some surplus material to me at a good price, which I sell in Africa and the Middle East.
Dmitri: Good to hear you two are making a nice profit.
Vladimir: How about yourself?
Dmitri: I rent out hundreds of cracked computers to US based companies.
Ivan:
Vladimir: Dmitri, you suck.