The UAB Spam Data Mine churns through a million spam messages every day. It contains 550 million junk e-mail messages in its database. The database can be used by law enforcement agencies to analyze activities such as spear phishing, advertising fraud, and identity spoofing. In this week’s bust, U.S. law enforcement authorities used the Data Mine to gather information about the e-mails containing the malware used by the online con artists to perpetuate their scam. The scam was fueled by infecting four million computers in more than 100 countries.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130035/spam-researchers-help-bust-global-cybercrime-ring.html