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FBI puts stop to spam king
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:35:56 -0400
http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0510/16/B01-349738.htm Sunday, October 16, 2005 FBI puts stop to spam king Agents close up shop by seizing equipment from bulk e-mailer's W. Bloomfield home in recent raid. By Joel Kurth and David Shepardson / The Detroit News Michigan's unapologetic king of bulk e-mail is in trouble again. This time, an FBI raid has closed what some consider one of the world's largest houses of spam. 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. FBI agents even took a copy of a 2002 Detroit News story that called Ralsky the "poster boy for spam." "We're out of business at this point in time," Ralsky said last week. "They didn't shut us down. They took all our equipment, which had the effect of shutting us down." The raid is the latest episode in a cat-and-mouse game between anti-spammers and Ralsky, 60, a gregarious, heavy-smoking ex-convict considered Public Enemy No. 1 in some pockets of the Internet. ... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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