Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker

tsu doh nimh writes "Alan Ralsky, the 64-year-old dubbed the 'Godfather of Spam,' was sentenced to 51 months in prison on Monday, the Washington Post's Security Fix blog reports. According to anti-spam group Spamhaus.org, Ralsky has been spamming since at least 1997, using dozens of aliases and tens of thousands of 'zombies' or hacked PCs to relay junk e-mail. Also sentenced — to 40 months in jail — was Ralsky's 48-year-old son-in-law, Scott K. Bradley, and two other men named last year in a 41-count indictment for wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and violations of the CAN-SPAM Act." And eldavojohn writes "19-year-old Dmitriy Guzner, Anonymous member and Scientology DDoS attacker, received one year and one day in jail for his admitted crime. His sentence could have been a maximum ten years. According to the Church of Scientology, Anonymous has harassed and attacked them with '8,139 threatening phone calls, 3.6 million e-mails, 141 million hits on its website, ten acts of vandalism against its property, 22 bomb threats, and eight death threats against Church leaders.'"

Comments

Re:dark side of the coin

[Anonymous Coward]

On the spam issue: it still seems like the best solution is not to attack the senders (there will always be more if there's $$$ to be made) but rather to attack the recipients. Send out a couple million ads for cheap dick pills, and mail the "customers" cyanide tablets. "Thin the herd", as the hunters say.

One would assume that after the first hundred or so people died that ordering prescriptions from dodgy outfits in spam mail would be a little less popular...

Re:Scientology is not a religion!

[thisnamestoolong]

I disagree -- Scientology is a religion in the truest sense of the word -- it is based on a book of poorly written fiction with no basis in reality and serves only to inhibit the thoughts and emotions of followers, while bilking them out of their hard earned income and simultaneously using its status as a religion to demand respect that it doesn't deserve. What more could you ask of an organized religion?