FBI Puts Stop To Spam King

AP via mlive.com ^ | 10/16/05

[steve-b]

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) -- A suburban Detroit man described as one of the nation's leading senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, says an FBI raid on his home-office has halted his operation.

Warrants unsealed last week show that a September raid on Alan M. Ralsky's home in West Bloomfield included the seizure of financial records, computers and disks. Agents also raided the West Bloomfield home of his son-in-law, Scott Bradley.

"We're out of business at this point in time," Ralsky told The Detroit News for a story Sunday. "They didn't shut us down. They took all our equipment, which had the effect of shutting us down."...

[steve-b]

I wonder if there's some behind-the-scenes policy being set by somebody who realizes that spam is a near-perfect terrorist/criminal comm channel, immune to even rudimentary traffic analysis (since there's no way to tell which of the millions of recipients recognizes a specific string of anti-spam-filter gibberish as the "go code" for an operation).

[theDentist]

Did any of the Agents also give him a good swift kick in the 'nads on our behalf?

[mad puppy]

I hate spam. Same thing over and over and over. I hope they don't get their computers back.

[Buck W.]

I wonder if sales of Hormel Spam have increased in the "spam" era...

[theDentist]

I hope someone breaks each of their fingers, and the courts restrain them from access to the 'net.

[supercat]

I hope someone breaks each of their fingers, and the courts restrain them from access to the 'net.

Just provide that if anyone is charged with a crime against them, any jury or grand jury would be informed of their actions as spammers.