Does today’s arrest end or diminish the SPAM problem?

God I hope so. The SPAM levels have been steadily increasing over the last 8 months or so and we could use a break. But we’re not going to get one. First of all, tguardian was not one of the biggest spammers around, but you have to admire law enforcement for blowing it out of proportion. He was just a scamming little script-kiddy that banged SpamAssassin until he could get a score low enough. Doubt that? Take a look at the graph below:

That is the global message load over at ExchangeDefender, last 24 hours. You can clearly see the spikes as our customers in Europe, USA and Asia/Pacific open for business. You can also see that the trends for today are up when compared to yesterday. Why is this bad news for everyone involved?

Well, if this guy was as big as the law enforcement leads us on to believe that US mid-day spike in activity would be significantly lower. But it wasn’t. Here is what happens when the feds bust you for cybercrime activities (long live Razor 1911).

First, all of your computer equipment, electronic equipment, electronic media, etc gets confiscated and certainly cracked in minutes. From there they try to get into the botnets, try to do discovery, capture any contacts, communications, business dealings, etc. The feds try to get as many people red handed as possible.

And these scumbags know this! So how do you explain the “enormous bust, sign of a SPAM kingpin crackdown, the end of UCE” that the media and some bloggers are hoping for?

Easy, they are wrong. tguardian always was and always will be a little scriptkiddy, bulk of whats coming up is done through organized crime from abroad.