Dec 03
Meet Oleg Nikolaenko. You probably don’t recognize his name, but odds are pretty good that you’ve received an e-mail from him at some point. The 23-year-old Russian man goes by the handle “Docent,” and the FBI believes that he’s behind roughly one-third of the world’s spam.
Nikolaenko is suspected to be the person behind Mega-D, a botnet that has infected 500,000, sending out thousands of spam messages about things like Rolex and prescription pills. The Moscow resident is the first person named in connection with Mega-D.
The FBI nabbed financial records showing that Nikolaenko managed to pull in $500,000 in six months via Lance Atkinson, a spammer who was sentenced to prison last year.
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