Alan Ralsky, the well known "spam king" who proudly bragged about his spamming escapades to a newspaper reporter... and then got all upset when people who read the article started signing his home address up for junk mail, is apparently in trouble with the law again. Last fall, the FBI raided his house, and now Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag, has an unconfirmed report from someone saying that Ralsky's now in jail. The report also notes that the spamming underworld is freaking out on the rumor that he's going to cough up some sort of plea bargain that involves ratting just about everyone out.

Oh, I SOOOOO hope this is true. These scumbags need to be sent up for a LONG time. I use Spamcop to report every spam I get, and yet every day I get the same 30-50 spams from the same Viagra, Pennystock and Real Estate Loan idiots.

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Posted by: Boyd at May 1, 2006 07:29 PM