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."

Comments

So, what else is new?

[mi]

Just look at the /var/log/maillog...

Solution?

[Claire-plus-plus]

There seems to be only one true solution to spam, don't use e-mail. Maybe rather than trying to fix e-mail it should be thrown out and a new paradigm for communication sought.

Once again:

[jcuervo]

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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