10/15 2005 – It isn’t easy being a spam king these days.
Todays anti-spam news are even more promising in some ways. According to the official website of Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, spam king #2 Leo Kuvayev and his BadCow operation has now been put out of business.
See www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=986&id=1502
Leo Kuvayev faces a 37 million dollar fine, and has reportedly gone underground in Russia.
Even though this is indeed great news, chances are that Leo Kuvayev will be able to keep his operation going where ever his whereabouts are. He has been known to do business with SendSafe, a spammer service that offers spam relays from wormjacked computers…