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February 8, 2017

‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud

This post was originally published on this siteMichael A. Persaud, a California man profiled in a Nov. 2014 KrebsOnSecurity story about a junk email purveyor tagged as one of the World’s Top 10 Worst Spammers, was indicted this week on federal wire fraud charges tied to an alleged spamming operation. According to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago, Persaud used multiple Internet addresses and domains – a technique known as “snowshoe spamming” – to transmit spam emails over at least nine networks. The Justice Department says Persaud sent well over a million spam emails to recipients in the United […]