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FBI Raids Home of Spam King Alan Ralsky

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the click-here-to-enlarge-your-prison-cell dept.

wstearns writes "The Detroit News is reporting that the FBI has raided Alan Ralsky's home. In the raid, the FBI took computers and financial records, effectively shutting him down. Mr. Ralsky has been frequently covered here."

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  1. Call your FBI and say thanks! by azav · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just phoned the Detroit office of the FBI who raided Ralsky's home at (313) 965-2323 and told the responding agent that I was so unbelievably happy that their office raided Alan Ralsky.

    The agent was amazed and replied "uh thank you. We don't get calls like this very often."

    OMG. Wow.

    This is an excellent opportunity to show your support that we STRONGLY support their action and efforts!

    If they know their is huge public support for this, that may help them to shut down more of these spammers!

    This is AWESOME!

    Just call and say thanks and this will keep things moving in the right direction.

    w00t!

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  2. Re:Charged with what? by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Spam is awful, but 20 years in prison for it is just absurd.
    Oh, I agree. If I send a spam to someone, I should only have to spend a day in jail. Maybe even just an hour. Half an hour? Oh, whatever. And if I expect this reasonably light sentence for myself committing the mostly harmless (but nevertheless malicious and fraudulent) crime of spamming a fellow human being, then it's only fair for this guy to get a fair sentence likewise.

    So let's only imprison him for one hour..

    ..per victim.

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  3. This is good news but we need *MORE* enforcement by merc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Alan Ralsky is one of the most egregious and pernicious of the spam scum out there. He tops the ROKSO (Registry of Known Spam Offenders) lists and is responsible for a very large volume of spam originating from APNIC netspace. Much of his spam hosting is overseas and he regularly emits spam by relaying it through zombied systems open relays or proxies. As you will see from the article some of his own state's anti-spam legislation were actually created with him solely in mind.

    I can only hope we see more of this in kind, especially Waggoner, Marin, Scelson, Lin, Martino and ESPECIALLY Soloway who, like Ralsky, has always been quite the unapologetic spammer.

    As an earlier poster said, thank you to the FBI for their hard work, and also for starting to take this problem seriously.

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