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A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man

Posted by timothy on from the hormel-should-be-so-proud dept.

DaveNJ1987 writes "The FBI believes that one third of the world's spam messages are being generated by one 23-year-old Russian man. Oleg Nikolaenko of Moscow is being blamed for operating the Mega D botnet that sent spam emails from over 500,000 infected computers."

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  1. More Details and Background by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's better coverage over at the Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee. Apparently the FBI agent tracking them is based out of there. Neat little story about how he got nabbed coming to Las Vegas for some big car show.

    From the article cited in the summary:

    The botnet sends out millions of spam messages ...

    You're a few orders of magnitude off there. Try tens of billions ...

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