Russians dominate spammer top ten

Half of ten worst spammers from former USSR.

This week’s list of the top ten ‘worst spammers and spam gangs’, released by spam fighters

Spamhaus

, is dominated by eastern Europeans, with a mysterious Ukranian at the top of the list and four Russians further down.

According to

Spamhaus

‘

Register of Known Spam Operations

(ROKSO), the top spammer bombarding inboxes at the moment is a Ukranian who goes under many aliases, mostly variants of Alex or Alexey. His operation includes a ‘massive botnet’ and a ‘child-porn spam ring.’ Also on the list are four Russians, giving eastern Europe a dominant position in the rankings. Two US citizens also appear, including the notorious Michael Lindsay, along with single representatives of Canada, Hong Kong and Israel.

Spamhaus

also states that a hard core of 200 ‘professional spam gangs’ are behind 80% of spam targeting users in North America and Europe. The list, with further details on each spammer available, can be found

here

.

Posted on 14 November 2006 by

Virus Bulletin