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A 23-year-old Russian is accused in Milwaukee
of generating a third of the world's computer spam.


      An FBI agent in Milwaukee is credited with bring down the 'king
of spam' - a 23-year-old Moscow man accused of controlling a
network of infected computers generating an estimated 10 billion
unwanted e-mails a day.


      A federal criminal complaint says the FBI and the Federal Trade
Commission have been tracking Oleg Nikolaenko since at least 2007.
He was arrested last month during a visit to Las Vegas. He's
scheduled to appear in federal court in Milwaukee Friday.


      His attorney, Christopher Van Wagner, says they are prepared to
present "a rigorous defense."

      Authorities subpoenaed Nikolaenko's Google mail records and say
they found files like the malware that ran his robot network,
called botnet.

A 23-year-old Russian is accused in Milwaukee
of generating a third of the world's computer spam.


Milwaukee FBI takes down 'king of spam'

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