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Gangsters Hijack Home PCs to Choke Internet with Spam

David Brown writes in The Times.co.uk:

Amichai Inbar, identified as the world’s fifth most significant spammer, has been using a London-based internet company to control the networks of hijacked computers, The Times has discovered. He is responsible for billions of e-mails advertising pornography, drugs such as Viagra and offers of “cheap” shares that turn out to be virtually worthless.

Mr Inbar, a Russian who also uses the names John Che Blau and Jonathan Blau, operates from Tel Aviv, Israel, but is linked to spammers in Russia and the US.

He is believed to have gained control of up to 150,000 computers that he uses to send his own spam, or rents out the network to criminal gangs based in Russia and the US.

posted by Fergie @ 11/25/2006 12:52:00 PM