The recent FBI investigation targeted American bot-herders with mainly American victims. But in plenty of countries, running a botnet is either not illegal at all, or can be done with impunity.

FBI最近的调查针对的是主要牵涉美国受害人的美国“僵尸牧人”，但在许多国家，运行“僵尸网络”或者根本不违法，或者不会受到惩罚。

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"Bot-herders and other 'spam kings' are difficult to track down, especially in so many different jurisdictions and areas around world, with no enforced policies against them, " Manky observes.

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