International Spam Ring Shut Down

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @10:19AM from the spamhaus-top-ten dept.

smooth wombat writes "An international spam ring with ties to Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and the US is in the process of being shut down. Finances of members in the US are being frozen using the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 while the FBI is pursuing criminal charges. The group sent spam advertising male enhancement herbs and other items using a botnet estimated at 35,000 computers, and able to send 10 billion emails per day. The Federal Trade Commission monitored the group's finances and found that they had cleared $400,000 in Visa charges in one month alone."

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They include Developing Countries, so... by sethstorm · 2008-10-14 10:39 · Score: 0, Troll

An international spam ring with ties to Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and the US
Two of these are not like the others. One is known to be an unprosecutable Melamine Country, and the other is known as an unprosecutable Offshoring Country.
One can only guess who's going to get away with their crimes.

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