Another Millionaire Spammer Story

An anonymous reader writes "Here's another story about a millionaire spammer who thinks he is doing nothing wrong and can't wait to get his hands on the next generation of spamming software." See also the last installment.

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Here's his email address and more info

[iamwoodyjones]

Here's more information on this scum bag:
scum bag info
I'm still looking for the physical adress of his *new* home/data center. If anyone finds it as well as his phone number, or his email *he* uses. Post it!

Re:Here's his email address and more info

[poot_rootbeer]

The author of the story tells you exactly how he found the address of his House of Spam. Pretty clever subversion of the spammer's request not to release that information to the public, if you ask me.

You get the feeling...

[Violet Null]

That the reporter doesn't really like spammers either, don't you? Consider this quote:

Today, Ralsky says he is trying to keep a lower profile, operating through cell phones and unlisted numbers. Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.

Or, in other words, "I promised not to reveal the address, but if you want to look it up, here's how to do so..."

Re:Good to know he has money...

[The Turd Report]

He has been sued before. I don't think it has stoped him at all.

Re:I'd like to see if this is *really* possible!

[EatHam]

Firstly, can anyone envision what could possibly do this? Does your browser have to be trojoned to accomplish this feat? Could it be an IE-only kind of design bug?

I can envision what would do this - there's been stories about this already. It's those popup messages that come up from Windows Messenger. Easy enough to turn off and block, but most people don't.

Re:I'd like to see if this is *really* possible!

[pbranes]

Here is the entire quote

Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam. It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened. "This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything.

I seriously doubt that this guy has some new revolutionary technology that will allow him to force ads to pop up no matter what we are doing. This sounds like the typical spyware that comes with kazaa and other similar programs. There is a great cure for this: Ad-Aware. This could also be the IE bug that was mentioned on slashdot yesterday.

Whatever this guy is talking about, it can be easily defeated by ad-aware, using mozilla, or disabling activex in IE.

For crying out loud!

[Moderation abuser]

There is software to stop mass mailings. It's just that there are loads of dumb schmucks out there who haven't bothered to see if anything actually exists to do the job.

Course, it's the same dumb schmucks who get all the spam mail, which suits me just fine.

The *real* problem is all these bloody spam stories on Slashdot. You only get spam these days because you want spam or are too dumb to do anything about it...

http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/
http://razor.sour ceforge.net/
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dc c/
http://www.spamassassin.org/
http://www.zanth an.com/itymbi/archives/000656.html

etc etc etc etc.

Here's a picture of Ralsky

[Animats]

Here's a picture, from a story about him settling a lawsuit with Verizon last month.

you can get him HERE!!!!!!!!

[paradesign]

here its his business, err, "real" business.