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Russia, China World's Biggest Spammers

Posted by timothy on from the water-among-earth's-wettest-substances dept.

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."

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  1. good to see by pvt_medic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that the mafia has gotten with the times, and now are providing services fitting for our times.

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    30% Troll, 50% Underrated, 10% Interesting
    Score:5, Troll
  2. What's going on here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean reality itself and human experience in particular. Most of the time things carry on in their usual way, but then it hits you -- and for that moment the mind boggles at the oddity of it all.

  3. Re:Poll Troll Toll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sex with horse
    ac
    now celebrating 9th year without mod points.

  4. Top 10 headlines we don't need to see: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) SCO is suing someone
    2) .+?AA is suing more "prirates"
    3) China relays spam
    4) Russian mobsters are not bound by US Law
    5) YAMW (Yet Another Microsoft Worm) is spreading because people can't be bothered to patch their systems / install firewalls / figure out that someone they dont know isn't really sending then an encrypted mail by zipping it
    6) XYZ is dead on arrival
    7) People should not pick easy passwords and should change them regularly
    8) Company Zed has been granted a patent for something obvious
    9) Open source / Colaborative open prorojects == Good
    10) Close source/ proprietary standards == Bad

    - The Hippo stole the monkeys pants

  5. Re:Start Bombing by ForestGrump · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your right. nobody reads the email. Its done by bots and....bots.

    just send an email to president@whitehouse.gov with a simple question like "What is President Bush's middle name?"

    the reply:
    "Thank you for e-mailing President Bush. Your ideas and comments are very
    important to him.
    Because of the large volume of e-mail received, the President cannot
    personally respond to each message. However, the White House staff
    considers and reports citizen ideas and concerns...."

    Nobody ever replied my question. I'm a tax paying citizen. Oh well, atleast we have equal rights...so nobody will read your email either.

    -Grump

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    Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
  6. Re:Start Bombing by ForestGrump · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "common cents" is defined as:
    spammer takes a penny, politictian takes a penny.

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    Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.