Authorities say he was the king of spam, a 23-year-old Russian controlling a network of infected computers generating 10 billion unwanted e-mails a day – a third of the global spam stream – until a Milwaukee FBI agent unplugged the operation.
Now, Oleg Nikolaenko awaits a hearing in federal court in Milwaukee, where he is charged with helping cyber hucksters pitch everything from counterfeit Rolex watches to fake Viagra….
A reported three years is a long time to devote to a spam investigation.
Nikolaenko may be a miscreant, but is the global spam king really a top FBI concern? Spam’s troublesome, but there must be threats to America — of both domestic and foreign origin, variously — that are more important.
Via Milwaukee FBI agent trips up Russian ‘king of spam’ – JSOnline.