Several years ago, federal agents traveled to Moscow to enlist the help of their Russian counterparts in arresting one of the worlds most pernicious email spammers. They were rebuffed, a former American law enforcement official who was there said. The spammer, who used the pseudonym Peter Severa, was protected, probably by the Russian government, and could not be touched.The agents went home and waited for their target to make a mistake.Last week he did, traveling for vacation to Barcelona, Spain, where the agents who had been following him for years were ready. Early last Friday, Spanish police burst into the hotel room where the spammer was staying with his family and arrested him. Simultaneously, cybersecurity operatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several private companies took down his online network of tens of thousands of virus-infected computers.
Källa: U.S. Accuses Russian Email Spammer of Vast Network of Fraud – The New York Times
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