Milwaukee FBI agent trips up Russian 'king of spam'

[Chris_]

Milwaukee FBI agent trips up Russian 'king of spam'

Authorities say he was the king of spam, a 23-year-old Russian controlling a network of infected computers generating 10 billion unwanted e-mails a day - a third of the global spam stream - until a Milwaukee FBI agent unplugged the operation.

Now, Oleg Nikolaenko awaits a hearing in federal court in Milwaukee, where he is charged with helping cyber hucksters pitch everything from counterfeit Rolex watches to fake Viagra.

According to a federal criminal complaint, agents from the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission had been tracking Nikolaenko's activities since at least 2007. The complaint outlines how international fraud artists rely on tech-savvy spammers to annoy and defraud consumers in an enterprise that generates enormous illegal profits

Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel

I can't say if my inbox feels lighter now since the spam filters usually catch most of this junk.

[true_blood]

Yeah, my inbox usually collects all the garbage mail.