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About Leo Kuvayev
- Leonid Aleksandrovitch Kuvayev (born 13 May 1972), who usually goes by the name of Leo, is a Russian/American spammer believed to be the ringleader of one of the world's biggest spam gangs.
- In 2005, he and six business partners were fined $37 million as a result of a lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts attorney general.
- It was found that they were responsible for millions of unsolicited e-mails per day.
- According to Spamhaus he could be the "Pharmamaster" spammer who performed a denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the BlueSecurity company.
- Kuvayev is also behind countless phishing and money mule recruiting sites hosted on botnets.
- He has been called a "spam czar", and a "virtual criminal".Kuvayev has registered domains with registrars operating in China, New Zealand, and France.
- Most of his actual web pages have been hosted in China.
- It is suspected by some information security professionals that Kuvayev may be involved in the operation and control of the Storm botnet.As of 1 June 2011, Kuvayev has confessed to sex crimes, sexually molesting girls as young as 13 years of age using the basement of his office in Moscow as a "dungeon".
- Kuvayev allegedly targeted vulnerable youngsters from children's homes, some of whom had mental or learning disabilities.
- Reports indicate that Kuvayev could face up to 20 years in prison for each offence.On 23 March 2012, a court in Moscow found Kuvayev guilty of sexual molestation charges.
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