Follow the money

It’s taken ten years of spamming for anyone to follow the money. This article in Information Week suggests 95% of all monies received for stuff sold via spam are processed by only three banks!

zerigazbank in Azerbaijan

DnB NOR in Latvia (although the bank is headquartered in Norway)

St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank in the Caribbean.

The original research paper here.

Posted by Carlton Duston on 31 May 2011 | 0 comments
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