Dutch botnet herder fined ?75K (which one of you Dutchies done this?)
 

Dutch spammer who used compromised PCs to spamvertise web sites has been fined ?75,000 ($97,000) by Opta, the Netherlands telecoms regulator

The man - named only as Mr X - used 600-700 compromised PCs to send about nine billion spam messages promoting penis pills, pornographic websites and other assorted tat. X's 14-month junk mail campaign reportedly earned him an estimated ? 40,000 before he was collared in November 2005.

Firms the junk mailer promoted included Badcow, Caesarbucks, Epiccash, Datinggold, Adultactioncash, Blackmarketmoney 8 and Latinamaricanfinancia, the International Herald Tribune reports.

Opta said Microsoft has assisted in its investigation. In mitigation, X argued that he had stopped spamming by the time he was arrested - not because he realised his activities were wrong, but because he "simply wasn't earning enough money".

http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/0...spammer_fined/

nine billion spam messages.. damn, that's a lot. I hope he'll rotten in jail for this.

I forsee this sponsor comment:
'He promised they were all double opt-in! We had no idea he was spamming!' :)

bliket.. you are next

he only earned 40k from 9 billion emails in 14 months, wtf?
I dont' know shit about mailing but that seems very low for a complicated botnet mailing setup...

nm.,.. double post..

dutch? mails? Hmmmm....









































Hi Franck! :helpme

If he only made $40k he deserved to get caught.

Thats hell of a lot of spam