Post by va3css on Oct 16, 2005 11:17:46 GMT -5
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."
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."
Detroit News
Too bad it's not permanent...
I like the part in the story where some anti-spam activists signed him up for a bunch of magazine subscriptions and his home got flooded with magazines! ;D
Paybacks are a....
