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Spam King to Sing For Feds?
Vainglorious Coward writes "Infoworld is repeating the rumours that Alan 'spam king' Ralsky has been arrested by the Feds. With the file sealed for 72 hours, the article claims the underworld is abuzz with concern that, faced with enough evidence to put him in jail, Ralsky will squeal on his associates. We should know in the next couple of days whether any of the roaches scurrying for cover are going to get stomped."
Finally they stopped chasing petty warez and went after people who actually profit and annoy the hell out of everyone else...
I vote for mob justice. Throw him into a locked room filled with the pissed off masses fed up with too much ludicrous junk mail.
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the underworld is abuzz with concern that, faced with enough evidence to put him in jail, Ralsky will squeal on his associates
I'm sure Mr. Ralsky's associates have nothing to fear. An upstanding, honest businessman such as himself would never rat on his friends.
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Thats singing contralto, right? I mean, we are going to punish that slime in an appropriate manner.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Can we send this guy to Guantanamo? How about Abu Ghraib? How about if we glue a put a yamaka on his head and drop him off in downtown Tehran.
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Before a slow and painful execution, he should have his anal sphincter jerked up around his adam's apple, his scrotum tied (in a proper square knot) behind his ears, then beat with a baseball bat until dead. ;)
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Great news. But, will this stop or even slow down spam? No. Even if they got half the spammers out there it would keep coming. Why? Too much easy money out there for the taking. Even if they got evey one who operates in the US we would still have a problem overseas . . . and I really doubt that any administration - yes even this one - would invade say Nigeria simply to cut down on spam. Anyway, how are we going to stop chineese spammers? Invade China? Ask their govenment to cut out illegal buisness practices? Yeah right. One spam king may fall, but another will rise in his place.
...he should have his anal sphincter jerked up around his adam's apple, his scrotum tied (in a proper square knot) behind his ears...
I think I got some spam for a site like this just a few days ago...
If Ralsky deserves only one second of jail for each minute infuriated users have lost deleting his crap, this could ammount to thousands of years of jail.
I'll be generous and I'll accept that his time in jail be divided by ten if he tells the Feds everything he knows !
Cheers !
I have no idea how this statement applies; it just seems appropriate.
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Take this whole thing with a grain of salt. There has been no reputable source that has provided this information; it's simply a rumor. Steve Linford has posted on news.admin.net-abuse.email that he knows nothing about Ralsky being taken into custody, and other reliable sources in the antispam forces known to me have no further information to corroborate this story.
Still, it's good news if it turns out to be true. I guess if we don't hear anything by Tuesday or Wednesday, given enough time for the rumored 72 hour seal on Ralsky's indictment to expire, we'll know whether this is bullshit or not.
He won't mind. There is a distinct possibility of failure, but if things go rotten he can always take a few penis pills.
(one wonders... if vitamin pills contain vitamins and garlic pills contain garlic, what might penis pills contain?)
No no--that might be cruel. Give him a form to fill out to opt-out of this punishment. (By form, I mean a giant stack to them. And one pencil.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hey, a way to help the national debt: ebay his fate. Is this the same person who was given a sentence of "never being allowed to use a computer for 5 years"?
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He'll be squealing for his new associates.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
No. Leave him in jail for a while. Lets send some penis enlargment pills, spemmax, and instant cialis tabs to his cell mate.
See if his cell mate lets him opt-out.
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According to the Spam Daily News - (http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/FBI_raid_shu ts_down_world_most_prolific_spammer.asp)
Of course, this could bode well or ill for prosecutors: Ralsky has been in jail, perhaps for just long enough to be scared of it. The question is: did he get hard enough to stare them down?
My bet is that he'd do the deal: he's a con artist, after all, but he's shared a bunk with real hardened felons, and that's likely to be the kiss-of-death for his co-conspirators when push comes to shove.
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I guess there's no need to target the place now.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
...oh please let this be true. I often thought that kneecapping spammers with a nail spiked baseball bat was too soft a punishment for these guys.
Turn him loose on the streets. Rumor will be abuzz that he cut a deal with the Feds, and someone is bound to put a contract on his head, compelling him to turn state evidence.
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Who is Alan Ralsky? The Spam King is, was, and forever shall be Sanford Wallace. With the Duke of Crass being Scott Richter and the Earl of Insanity being Roddy ``Time Traveller'' Todino.
Robby Todino, not Roddy. Sorry about that.
Death is, after all, the ultimate annoyance, followed by theft.
Mr. Coward has warned us that eventually, simple-minded lunatics will destroy our culture, our institutions, and our way of life. If you think about it, you'll realize that Mr. Coward's warning is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the sense that Mr. Coward is like a magician who produces a dove in one hand, while the other hand is busy trying to withhold information and disseminate half truths and whole lies. Whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may fight for our freedom of speech and, as the alternative, the fork-tongued and exploitative dirigisme currently being forced upon us by Mr. Coward. Choose carefully, because the picture I am presenting need not be confined to Mr. Coward's cock-and-bull stories. It applies to everything he says and does. Everything I've said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that what he is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly crass activity. Aside from the fact that from the very beginning, mindless carpetbaggers have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich, Mr. Coward commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. He then ensures that these people stay in those positions because that makes it easy for Mr. Coward to turn once-flourishing neighborhoods into zones of violence, decay, and moral disregard. In summary, it is my prayer that people everywhere will join me in my quest to work beyond the predatory plasticity of Mr. Anonymous Coward's prognoses.
Why am I not rapping? I am rapping with you in a way.
If (Feds.prosecute() == Spammer)
slashdotCrowd.getsSuperExcited();
else if (Feds.prosecute() == AnybodyElse)
slashdotCrowd.getsSuperMad();
But actually, it's only "jail" for now - if we're lucky it'll be followed by "prison".
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Funny in a way because IF there would be any logic to the idea that you absorb the essence of what you eat, then all the predators would be prey.
The mighty wolf would be a bit of a deer. The great white a bit of a surfer dude. The anteater a tiny insect.
But I guess when your chinese you are pretty desperate for anything that might give you a bigger penis.
Lucky as a true nerd I am above that. Doesn't much matter for jerking off what size it is ^_^
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
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MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Petty Warez, you say?
If you think there's no money in bootlegged musics, movies, software (games and business software), then you need to think again. Sure, there may not be much if you're distributing over P2P (some money going to sites hosting trackers for torrents or authors of the P2P software in question instead) - but if you do it through high-rate FTP sites or even further down to actual CD/DVD sales... there is decent money to be made. Depending on the scale and geography of your operation, either a nice sports car, or enough money to not work for a few years.
Now if you meant to say those who are indeed downloading off of P2P networks, or those passing out a CD to their classsmate for free... yeah, agreed, time better spent on the big fishes. That said, both are illegal, so both should be addressed.
( And yes, I know not all downloads are copyright protected, and yes I know that many of those that are, are instead governed by licenses such as the GPL. The context here is audio/video/software that the recipients would not be legally entitled to have. )
If you're reading this Alan, I've got some excellent 'Get Out Of Jail Free' pills you might be interested in...
I think we should throw him in a room with the mythical person that runs SPEWS and let the best man win.
Like sending him lube ads?
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Make the spammer have one of his own penis enlargements he's always telling us are so great & just as he's nice, red & sore after the operation, start feeding him the viagra he's alway telling us is so great. :-)
Ouch!
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He'll probably be a free man within weeks.
Hello my name is Tunde Bamake and I am writting to you to offer an amazing deal.
Recently an associate of mine Alan Rasky was arrested by the FBI on charges of sending spam and unsolicted emails. I assure you my friend that these charges are totally unfounded and he really needs your help.
He has $10,000,000 ten million dollars sitting in a Swiss bank account which he needs to pay for his lawyers. He can not get that money because the FBI will confiscate it if he trys to access it.
My friend, I am asking you as a Christian to help my friend Mr Rasky with little effort from yourself. All you have to do is allow us to transfer the $10,000,000 TEN MILLION DOLLARS through your personal account.
This will be at no risk or effort to yourself. Mr Ramsky understands the effort you will be going through and thus is offering you $250,000 TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for your help.
Please my friend, I ask you to help Mr Ramsky in his hour of need.
Which of the following wastes more of your time:
Personally, I have a pretty good spam filter so it's #2 by a large margin.
Although it later turned out to be just a simple case of robbery gone bad rather than an irate netizen, Kushnir sure got what was coming!
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
It's a troll. No doubt someone has simply done a s/[infamous person]/Ralsky on a famous letter or whatnot.
If you don't believe me, just search the text for the zero occurances of "spam" or "email" within.
For bonus points, can you discover the original subject for the piece of text above?
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Hmmmm... Car accident? Overdose of viagra? Die jumping out the window of a basement apartment?
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It's been interesting reading over the replies and how quickly mob mentality gets perpetuated. One dude wanted to beat him with a baseball bat until dead. Spam is annoying and intrusive, but what's spooky is how the witch-hunt sets in when so many people feed off each other. Besides, if you think this one bust is going to stop spam and phishing you're sadly mistaken. People need to be educated on email use just like they do for using their computer. The spam/phishing problem is largely an ignorance issue. Maybe Best Buy should start including some web-use educational material in that shrink wrap.
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He can always out-out of that prison sentence, right? Just a mail with "remove me"...
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Given that few major companies are in as deep with the mob as Sony, perhaps we could shake out some stuff from purportedly legitimate businesses.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Hmmm, that wouldn't be any fun unless it would be broadcast live to all nations, done from a proper stage, with people throwing tomatoes at him. I guess a humane sentence would be 1 millisecond of pain for every mail sent by him or his associates, no-one sends mail in bulks of millions, uh, oh wait, never mind.
Let's not forget our lawyer friends in AZ:
Cantor and Siegel:The Green Card Spammers
Been there, seen that, got the T-shirt....
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
When legitimate businesses hire cockroaches to do their "dirty work" of spamming, the roaches aren't worth going after. You can stomp them all day and they just keep coming for the easy money. And they're hard to hit and they know it.
You have to go after the businesses that hire the scum.
I am trying that currently. In September I submitted an email address to Ford's "have a dealer in your area contact you about a Hybrid". I got several responses from dealers. Three weeks ago, that email address (which I made specially for that purpose) started receiving spam, one per day. I sent a nastygram to Ford and the dealers that responded to me asking who it was that sold my email address, in violation of their privacy policy as stated on their web site. One of the dealers replied, but the rest of the dealers AND Ford ignored my emails.
Since then I have tried other emails to two of Ford's complaint addresses. One was ignored, and the other bounced with a "relaying denied" error.
They know they are selling us out, and they really don't care. Businesses don't care about anything that doesn't cost them money, and if it MAKES them money, they care even less. Until it affects their wallet in the form of fines, legislation, and accountability, it won't stop.
In my case it actually looks like the company that Ford pays to run their "have a dealer contact you" page ("morpace.com") is actually the one that is harvesting the email addresses that Ford's customers enter on the web page.. they forward your requet to the dealers per their business arrangement with Ford, AND add your name to their own internal spam mailing list that activates a few months later so you don't suspect their client (Ford) of having sold you out. You'd think that if Ford found out about this they'd be pissed and that would hit someone in the wallet, but so far my complaints have fallen only on deaf ears. I'm going to try calling them on Monday to see if anyone cares, though I'm guessing "no".
It amazes me that Ford would risk pissing off a customer that is looking to buy a $28,000 product from them over maybe a quarter made by selling their email address to spammers.
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Tell him his sentence will be up as soon as he deletes the same number of spam he sent, and tell him (falsely) that the only way to get out sooner is to find a "get out of jail free" e-mail buried within the rest. Then stick him in a cell with a 56K modem and a connection that likes to randomly disconnect.
***bows down in awe**** :)
You are truly evil, evil I say!
Fantastic idea!
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Spam King going to Sing Sing?
I hope you now understand why I say that Mr. Ralsky would love to see college campuses morph into small, ivy-covered North Koreas in which the student or faculty member who dares to deal summarily with scornful freaks quickly finds himself in a heap of legal trouble.
Unfortunately I don't understand why you say that Mr. Ralsky would love to see colleges morph into small, ivy-covered North Koreans. Perhaps you could go into further depth.
* hadif: Words of the Prophet Mohammed, as opposed to commentary from other people. Its basically the gold standard for canonical sources. But what do I know, I'm just an infidel.
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... and give him slackware + lynx + pine :)
Even valleywag now seems to concede that this rumour is false. It was fun while it lasted.
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