SpamCourt

Another member of the dead bulkerforum locked up: Docent, Oleg Nikolaenko.

For your readings:
Brian Krebs:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/12/fbi-identifies-russian-mega-d-spam-kingpin/

Gar Warner:
http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2010/12/oleg-nikolaenko-mega-d-botmaster-to.html

In short: Docent was the Mega-D botmaster and a criminal spammer.

According to his one posting on bulkerforum.biz, he may also have been a stockspammer:

Stocks - who knows these symbols?
CYTV, CWTD - contact me please, I need same class deals. NO 4 resellers & references a must!

Did we forget Atkinson? Maybe.

Time will tell when the next criminal from bulkerforum goes down.
Another MegaDick jailed.

I forgot about the first indictment a couple of years ago.
Now this one popped up in news.admin.net-abuse.email in a posting by Nick:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/pump_and_dump_botnet/

Quote:

According to court documents, Bragg was hired to pump the value of two over-the-counter stocks by blasting the internet with promotional email.
He in turn hired people to use botnets to distribute the messages to improve the chances they wouldn't be caught by spam filters.
The botnets were also used to compromise online brokerage accounts so they could be used to buy up large blocks of the two stocks.
He also falsified the headers of the emails, in violation of various laws outlawing spam.

And a quote from another source,

Another one from bulkerforum.biz went down lately.
Paul Zucker aka valoracion is facing up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

Remember that guys, if you ever think about a career as a spammer.

This guy had his own ROKSO records at Spamhaus, but they are gone now.
Present domains: instant-sitecreator.com. plentifulpleasures.net, plentifulpleasures.info, 15k-profits.com.
In case someone out there does not want to buy from criminal spammers.

Quoting almost the whole stuff from http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/kc071310.htm:

July 13, 2010
New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to E-Mail Spam Conspiracy
Millions of E-Mail Addresses Illegally Harvested from Computers at Hundreds of Universities

Interesting news:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/darkmarket_fraudster_guilty_plea/

"Pizza delivery man cops to life in DarkMarket"

That pizza delivery man with a bad poor security hygiene was also a member of the now gone bulkerforum.biz.
With the same nick as on DarkMarket, JiLsi.
So now we know he is Renukanth Subramaniam.

Another example of a criminal member of that forum.
And we have another verification that they stink.

Wonder where they are today?
Follow the money?
Follow the smell?