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FTC shuts down major spam ring |
2008-10-17 |
The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the Internet, persuading a federal court in Chicago on Tuesday to freeze the group’s assets and order the spam network to shut down. The group, which used several names but was known among spam-fighting organizations as HerbalKing, sent billions of unsolicited messages to Internet users over the last 20 months, promoting replica watches and a variety of pharmaceuticals, including weight-loss drugs and herbal pills that supposedly enhanced the male anatomy, according to the commission. “This is pretty major. At one point these guys delivered up to one-third of all spam,” said Richard Cox, chief information officer at SpamHaus, a nonprofit antispam research group. . . . The security firm Marshal Software, which assisted the F.T.C. with the investigation, estimated in court documents that the group’s Mega-D botnet — named after one of its pill products — was made up of 35,000 computers and could send 10 billion e-mail messages a day. In January, the botnet was the leading source of spam on the Internet, the firm estimated. . . . Now, can we give the ringleaders the Julius Streicher treatment? Can we, huh? |
Posted by:Mike |
#3 I'd prefer to have the the US Air Force shut down a major spam ring, but I'll settle for the FTC. |
Posted by: DMFD 2008-10-17 18:59 |
#2 Ewww. Do they feed that shit to the guys at Guantanamo? Well they should... |
Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-17 09:47 |
#1 Nice pic! Good God - Spam, olives and radishes. There's a bellyache in the making. |
Posted by: GORT 2008-10-17 08:15 |