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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. Re:somebody should kill the bastard by John+Hasler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Apologies for stereotyping...

    Apology not accepted.

    > ...but you must be American...

    Like the Canadian advisor to the PM who recently called for the murder of Julian Assange? Or the British police who attack Brazilian tourists in the subway and shoot them in the head?

    > Civilized countries arrest someone, then try him.

    And, not coincidentally, he has been arrested in the USA and will be tried.

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  2. Re:somebody should kill the bastard by digitalsushi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope, it's not. Find someone who would rather be raped to deleting 500,000 messages from their inbox.

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