60 year old “poster boy” for spam has FBI seize equipment |
Guess this anti-spam Sunday continues (I’ll try to make this the last one on spam for a little while) …
The FBI is putting the crackdown on alleged spammer, Alan Ralsky, who says he isn’t a spammer, but a “commercial e-mailer.” I’m sure at least one of our email boxes has been hit by his commercial email storm.
Warrants unsealed last week revealed that agents in September seized computers, laptops, financial records and disks from the 8,000-square-foot home of Alan M. Ralsky. The $750,000 West Bloomfield mini-mansion was built off profits from the 100 million electronic offers for everything from Botox to mortgages that Ralsky sends every day.
The article points to his 2002 undisclosed cash settlement with Verizon over two situations where Ralsky allegedly crippled their network.
I believe in innocent until proven guilty, so let Ralsky get his day in court, but I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t see jail time. He’s familiar with jail, as he got put there once before (not for spam, though).
If guilty should turn out to be the verdict in this case then I wonder if Ralsky’s stuff will be auctioned off like AOL did with their spam king catch? They should sell it and give it to the people who were displaced by Katrina.
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