MILWAUKEE - a 23-year-old Russian man masterminding accused pleaded not guilty Friday in Federal Court in Wisconsin to a spam US law violate a vast worldwide spamming network.
The judge ordered Oleg y. Nikolaenko held without bond, say he was a flight risk due to its access to cash and its lack of links to Wisconsin or USA
Mr Nikolaenko was in court wear bright orange jail trousers and matching Sweatshirt brought and confined to the ankles. His lawyer entered the plea as Russian interpreter for the Moscow man translated.
Prosecutors say Mr Nikolaenko ran a network involved placing malicious code on unsuspecting users computer and then kidnapping the infected machines to pop from billions of email messages.
Internet security experts say that network was so massive that it takes into account all three unwanted email in the world of some days for one.
Mr Nikolaenko is accused, violates the CAN-SPAM Act by deliberately falsifying header information in commercial email messages and at least 2,500 spam e-Mails per day, the minimum threshold for the load. Prosecutors say its network was able to send up to 10 billion messages per day.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Mr Nikolaenko unshaven with disheveled hair, sat silent and deadpan during the 20 minute procedure.
His lawyer, Christopher Van Wagner, said he intends to mount a vigorous defense and would consider whether width in ability to endanger publicity, his client, to receive a fair trial.
"Some people port or cold war images of people from Russia," he told reporters on the courthouse steps. "Take a look at Oleg, he looks like a child in a cellar munching nachos and play Wii" video games.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Erica O' Neil said tracking the case on "voluminous" records, including E-mail, Mr Nikolaenko allegedly sent and obtained information from computer hard drives would depend. She said a computer crime expert from the U.S. Department of Justice due to the complexity of the case will support.
Mr. Van Wagner hinted that he may try doubts about the validity of email records.
"If on an email do not know replies, who enters it," he said.
Mr Nikolaenko was arrested last month at the Bellagio Hotel, while he was a car show in Las Vegas. In Milwaukee, tried is he is since that is where an undercover FBI investigator commanded, distributed viagra through an email from Mr of Nikolaenko's alleged and received bogus herbal pills instead an FBI spokesman said.
Mrs O' Neil, Mr Nikolaenko said at a U.S. Marshal prison in Milwaukee is kept.
In arguing that Mr Nikolaenko bail should be granted, Mr. Van Wagner was his client were wife and young daughter in the process of travel request visa in Russia so you could be with Mr Nikolaenko in Milwaukee for the trial version. They would not do that if Mr Nikolaenko planned, fleeing, he said.
But was not convinced US magistrate judge Patricia Gorence, say Mr Nikolaenko had two passports and $4,000 in cash, when he was arrested. Mr. Van Wagner could request a new bond hearing once arranged for a venue for Mr Nikolaenko to live the defence, he would make "absolute" a request that Mr Van Wagner said, she said.
Prosecutors say Mr. of Nikolaenko's trail during the persecution of another man sentenced in Missouri of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit Rolex watches geschnüffelt. The details say created, led you to a far-flung investigation, which eventually Mr Nikolaenko helped them to one of the world's most modern spamming networks bind - "Mega-D," which said investigators accounted for 32% of all worldwide spam.
Investigators say Mega-D botnet, short for "robot network" was in the so-called malware user computers are infected, which allows remote hijack someone your computer and have it send spam messages. The Mega-D network contain more than half a million infected computers.
Mr Nikolaenko is due in court Dec. 21 for a scheduling Conference. Judge Gorence said his trial at the latest until February 11 must begin.
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