'Broke' Estonian suspect pleads guilty to DNSChanger click fraud scam
An Estonian man has pleaded guilty to involvement in the DNSChanger click fraud scam. The Trojan infected 4 million computers worldwide, netting cybercrooks an estimated $14m in the process. Valeri Aleksejev, 32, pleaded guilty to fraud and computer hacking offences at a hearing at a US federal court on Friday, Reuters reports. …
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Took me a while to read that right
Kept reading Estonian as "Etonian".
Politics in the news must be warping my fragile little mind :p
Re: Took me a while to read that right
Kept reading Estonian as "Etonian".
I did the same initially. Quickly realised my error though; as if an Etonian would be broke ...
Re: Took me a while to read that right
I read it as Elbonia (the 3rd world country of waist deep mudd) from Dilbert fame.
He might be broke but ...
He can still pay in other ways. Five years in the Big House sounds about right.
Re: He might be broke but ...
5 years in the big house an then retire to a luxury villa in the Cayman Islands.
Still sounds like a bargin...
Re: He might be broke but ...
No they won't. The court has seized 143 different real estate propertes, 6 cars and a small boat from them.
(I live in Estonia)
five years for 14M
how about enough chokey time until it's all paid back from hard labour>
Re: five years for 14M
THAT is the way it should be - treble damages plus 30 years in the slammer.
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