Posted by: David Webb in Untagged on
Oct 31, 2012
This article is imported from the Website SPAMHAUS - http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers
Up to 80% of spam targetted at Internet users in North America and Europe is generated by a hard-core group of around 100 known professional spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus' Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database.
This TOP 10 chart of ROKSO-listed spammers is based on those Spamhaus views as the highest threat, the worst of the career spammers causing the most damage on the Internet currently. Spamhaus flags these gangs and individuals as a priority for Law Enforcement Agencies.
| The 10 Worst Spammers |
| As of 31 October 2012 the world's worst spammers and spam gangs are: |
| 1 |  | Vincent Chan gang - Hong Kong
Vincent Chan and his Chinese partners have been sending spam for years. They mainly do pharmacy, and are able to send out huge amounts daily. They use vast numbers of compromised computers -- for sending, hosting and proxy hijacking. Now seem to be an "oursourced" server obtainer for other spam gangs. |
| 2 | | Streamdirect TV on PC a/k/a ''Adober'' gang - Canada
Spamming for some years now. All fraud scam spam trying to sell fake versions of Adobe/Skype, anti-virus or other software. Moved into criminally hacking the accounts of ESPs and ESP customers to pump out their spam. They have a heavy Russian influence. |
| 3 | | Alex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex Polyakov - Ukraine
So many Alex & Alexey spamming! Alex Blood tied to Pilot Holding & bbasafehosting.com long ago, then Alex Polyakov posted he owned them. Massive botnet and child-porn spam ring, also pharma, mortgage, and more. May work with Kuvayev and Yambo. |
| 4 | | Quick Cart Pro - United States
American operation with Philippines, Russian and Canadian connections, this large spam operation mostly promotes fake pharmaceuticals using classic "snowshoe" methods with countless IP ranges and domains. Many fictitious identities and aliases. They own at least to ICANN registrars and use them to obtain an unlimited stream of domains to spam. |
| 6 | | HerbalKing - India
Massive affilitiate spam program for snakeoil Body Part Enhancement scams. Also does replica luxury goods, pharma and porn. Spams via botnets, bulletproof hosting offshore and even sometimes uses fast flux hosting. |
| 7 | | Canadian Pharmacy - Ukraine
A long time running pharmacy spam operation. They send tens of millions of spams per day using botnet techniques. Probably based in Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Russia. Host spammed web sites on botnets and on bulletproof Chinese web hosting. |
| 8 | | Yambo Financials - Ukraine
Huge spamhaus tied into distribution and billing for child, animal, and incest-porn, pirated software, and pharmaceuticals. Run their own merchant services (credit-card "collection" sites) set up as a fake "bank." |
| 9 | | Ruslan Ibragimov / send-safe.com - Russian Federation
Stealth spamware creator. One of the larger criminal spamming operations around. Runs a CGI mailer on machines in Russia and uses hijacked open proxies and virus infected PCs to flood the world with spam. |
| 10 | | Nikhil Kumar Pragji / Dark-Mailer - Australia
Through the Dark-Mailer Windows based proxy-botnet based spamware, this spammer is responsible for and behind a large portion of the world's illegally sent spam. |
These Scam Stories are imported from the Website www.stop-scammers.com
Scam Story of Dorrian (Australia)
 | First name: | Elena | Last name: | T. | Aka: | unknown | Age: | 22 | Location(s): | Lugansk (Ukraine) | Address(es): | unknown | Phone number(s): | 380507435997 | E-mail address(es): | unknown | Operates on site(s): | Anastasia Date | Report(s): | Report N1 (added on September, 23, 2009)
Hi, there.
This is Anastasiadate customer Dorrian.
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