The Federal Trade Commission claims to have shut down the world’s largest spam network, one which is estimated to be responsible for one-third of all spam sent, according to Vnunet.
The global network, which has offices in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Russia, Canada, and the United States has been responsible for billions of spam messages and had generated over three million complaints.
The FTC named two people and the companies they control as being behind the network. They’re Lance Atkinson, a New Zealander based in Australia, and Texan Jody Smith. In a statement the FTC said:
