Ukrainian heads up top ten spammer list
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Just ten people account for 80 per cent of the world's spam according to anti-spam organisation Spamhaus. Half of the perpetrators hail from Eastern Europe.
Top of the pile, according to Spamhaus, is Ukrainian Alex Polyakov (aka Alex Blood/Alexander Mosh/AlekseyB). Polyakov is alleged to work with a Russian spam gang called Pavka/Artofit that controls a large amount of botnets that churn out spam.
Second on the list of shame is Russian Leo Kuvayev (aka BadCow). Kuvayev is alleged to be 'involved in pirated software spam, child and animal porn spam, porn payment collection, pharma/pills and phishing, to name a few.'
Just ten people account for 80 per cent of the world's spam according to anti-spam organisation Spamhaus. Half of the perpetrators hail from Eastern Europe.Top of the pile, according to Spamhaus, is Ukrainian Alex Polyakov (aka Alex Blood/Alexander Mosh/AlekseyB). Polyakov is alleged to work with a Russian spam gang called Pavka/Artofit that controls a large amount of botnets that churn out spam.
Second on the list of shame is Russian Leo Kuvayev (aka BadCow). Kuvayev is alleged to be 'involved in pirated software spam, child and animal porn spam, porn payment collection, pharma/pills and phishing, to name a few.'
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