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Infamous spammer indicted

"Greatest business in the world"
Friday, 4 January 2008, 10:32

AN INDICTMENT of notorious spam kingpin Alan Ralsky and ten alleged confederates was revealed yesterday by the US Attorney's office in Detroit, Michigan.

Ralsky, his son-in-law Scott Bradley, and nine others are accused of using spam to tout Chinese penny stocks in a pump and dump scam. The most serious charges of mail and wire fraud have maximum penalities of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fines. They are also charged with conspiracy, money laundering, and violating federal antispam laws.

In an interview published by the Detroit Free Press back in November of 2002, Ralsky was cheekily unapologetic in boasting about his massive, far-flung email spamming operations.

"I'll never quit. I like what I do. This is the greatest business in the world," Ralsky had said.

Now he might have several years in prison ahead of him to regret ever having said that. ยต

L'INQ
Detroit Free Press

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He should be executed.

This man has no doubt touched more people and wasted more time with his crimes than virtually any other criminal. For the good of humanity he should be executed as an example to other spammers. Maybe just for his case we should temporarily neglect the cruel and unusual punishment right as well.

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