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FBI Targeting One of World's 'Worst' Email Spammers
Source: ABC News
FBI Targeting One of World's 'Worst' Email Spammers
By MIKE LEVINE Jun 9, 2016, 10:38 AM ET
The FBI has launched a criminal investigation into a California man deemed one of the "Top 10 Worst Spammers" in the world, who can blast out a million unsolicited messages from his San Diego home in less than 15 minutes, according to court documents.
Michael Alexander Persaud has been under federal investigation since at least 2013, and the FBI raided his home in April, the court documents indicate. By the end of April, a federal grand jury was looking at the case.
Persaud, 39, has allegedly become so prolific that Spamhaus, a London-based organization that tracks cyberthreats and works with the FBI, identified him as number 10 on its list of the “Top 10 Worst Spammers” in the world.
Such spammers are often hired by shadowy online retailers to “mass-market unregulated or counterfeit products directly to consumers,” paying the spammers a percentage of any sales their email blitzes generate, according to the court documents.
The FBI has filed these documents with the court, asking that a federal judge let agents search Persaud’s iCloud account, believing the account – linked to two Apple computers and an iPhone seized from his home – contains evidence of “illegal spamming” and wire fraud “to further his spamming activities,” one FBI agent wrote in an affidavit filed in the case.
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By MIKE LEVINE Jun 9, 2016, 10:38 AM ET
The FBI has launched a criminal investigation into a California man deemed one of the "Top 10 Worst Spammers" in the world, who can blast out a million unsolicited messages from his San Diego home in less than 15 minutes, according to court documents.
Michael Alexander Persaud has been under federal investigation since at least 2013, and the FBI raided his home in April, the court documents indicate. By the end of April, a federal grand jury was looking at the case.
Persaud, 39, has allegedly become so prolific that Spamhaus, a London-based organization that tracks cyberthreats and works with the FBI, identified him as number 10 on its list of the “Top 10 Worst Spammers” in the world.
Such spammers are often hired by shadowy online retailers to “mass-market unregulated or counterfeit products directly to consumers,” paying the spammers a percentage of any sales their email blitzes generate, according to the court documents.
The FBI has filed these documents with the court, asking that a federal judge let agents search Persaud’s iCloud account, believing the account – linked to two Apple computers and an iPhone seized from his home – contains evidence of “illegal spamming” and wire fraud “to further his spamming activities,” one FBI agent wrote in an affidavit filed in the case.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/fbi-targeting-worlds-worst-email-spammers/story?id=39681104
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