Business Process Outsourcing News and Information

If you think the spams that you receive everyday at your inbox come just like that, that someone with some idle time in hand or some weird school drop out computer hacker (or geek) unleashing these mails one fine morning because he wants to earn some quick bucks by selling organ enhancing medicine, you are mistaken.

The spam attack is done professionally, this is a well run and managed industry. And like other mainstream industries this spam industry also ousources its work broadly to China. There are spam brokers, spam distribution networks, spam hosts, there are psychology graduates to scam victims, there are anti detection engines that detect anti-virus software before it spots the rootkit

The driver behind this market is, obviously, monetary gain, says Auckland University's IT security guru, Peter Gutmann. The underground world of cyber criminals has its own sophisticated money laundering business, where funds are moved and laundered in many different ways, for example using compromised bank accounts, he says. There are also cashiers who will cash out and move the funds for you — for a share of the money, of course.

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