International Spam Ring Busted

The FTC won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the Internet, persuading a federal court in Chicago on Tuesday to freeze their assets and order the spam network to shut down. They operated internationally: shipping drugs out of India, hosting its websites in China, processing credit cards from the former Soviet republic of Georgia and Cyprus, and transferring funds using ePassporte. Full story available online at nytimes.com.