Spam Nation villin charged with fraud

I read this article yesterday where one of the villins used in Brian Kreb’s book Spam Nation was charged with Fraud.

The article is titled ‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud and was an interesting read.

He was arrested in Moscow, according to the article.

This is not the first arrest in Russian teritory, but it is not common from what I’ve read on arrests of cybercriminals go.

According to the article, Brian has written about the mentioned guy in 20089, when he was a reporter for the Washington post.

We also learn that he was also sentenced to 2 and a half years in a Russian penal collony.

After getting out, he started yet another payment processor. That paragraph says:

Following his release from jail, Vrublevsky began working on a new digital payments platform based in Hong Kong called HPay Ltd (a.k.a. Hong Kong Processing Corporation). HPay appears to have had a great number of clients that were running schemes which bamboozled people with fake lotteries and prize contests.

I wonder if some of that came through SMS? I’ve noticed, knock on wood, that the SMS spam I’ve been getting has completely stopped except for the occasional one that might come through.

There’s more, feel free to check this out and form your own opinions.