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FBI Puts Stop To Spam King
AP via mlive.com ^ | 10/16/05

Posted on 10/17/2005 7:59:14 AM PDT by 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."...

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: crook; fbi; pest; ralsky; scum; sleaze; spam
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).
1 posted on 10/17/2005 7:59:22 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: steve-b

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


2 posted on 10/17/2005 8:02:13 AM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: steve-b

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


3 posted on 10/17/2005 8:02:27 AM PDT by mad puppy ( The Southern border needs to be a MAJOR issue in 2006 and 2008)
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To: steve-b

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


4 posted on 10/17/2005 8:04:20 AM PDT by Buck W. (Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
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To: mad puppy

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


5 posted on 10/17/2005 8:10:36 AM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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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.

6 posted on 10/17/2005 4:10:21 PM PDT by supercat (Don't fix blame--FIX THE PROBLEM.)
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