world's top spammers got busted

[japanesebaby]

they recently caught the worst spammers in the world.
i wonder if it'll mean we'll all get less spam now, or if it'll mean we'll soon get even more since there's probably room for new  organization to step in now.
anyway.


A U.S. district court has ordered a halt to the operations of a vast international spam network that peddled prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement products. The network has been identified as the largest "spam gang" in the world by the anti-spam organization Spamhaus. The Federal Trade Commission has received more than three million complaints about spam messages connected to this operation, and estimates that it may be responsible for sending billions of illegal spam messages. At the request of the FTC, the court has issued a temporary injunction prohibiting defendants from spamming and making false product claims, and has frozen the defendants' assets to preserve them for consumer redress pending trial. Authorities in New Zealand also have taken legal action, working in tandem with the FTC.

Some security researchers believe that at one time, nearly one-third of the world's spam e-mail came from a network of compromised computers, often referred to as a 'botnet,' that sent spam promoting the defendants' Web sites. Their enterprise included participants in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Russia, Canada, and the United States.



some other sources estimate that there was possibly at least 35,000 computeres in a massive botnet, sending perhaps even 10 billion spam emails per day. the guys running the operation might have illegally earned some $400,000 per month with this.



http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/10/herbalkings.shtm