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A Spam ‘Godfather’ Falls

Dec 14 2009, 01:33 PM 

Anti-spam efforts have borne fruit with the ‘Godfather’ of spam being sentenced to over 4 years in jail.

It is said that when a giant falls, we all feel the ground shake; and this is exactly what happened when Alan Ralsky, possibly amongst the biggest spammers ever, was indicted for mail fraud. He was sentenced to over 4 years in prison along with his accomplices for persistently sending unsolicited junk email over a sustained period of time.

In a ruling that sends out a clear message to chronic spammers, 64-year-old Ralsky was not only handed a stiff prison sentence, but will also forego the $250,000 that the government seized from him two years ago and be under special surveillance for five years after his release.

Having earned a reputation as the mastermind behind innumerable fraudulent email campaigns, Ralsky misused technology to dupe unsuspecting recipients of thousands of dollars. Typically, Ralsky and his associates would first buy large quantities of a relatively unknown microcap stock. Next, they would send email blasts falsely informing recipients that it was a great buy and wait until some of them bought the stock. When the stock price went up because of heavy buying activity, Ralsky and the other fraudsters would sell their shares at a healthy profit.

According to Spamhaus.org, a prominent anti-spam group, Ralsky had been involved in many similar ‘pump-and-dump’ scams since as far back as 1997. During the process, it is suspected that he used hundreds of computers or ‘zombies’ to send out junk email from many different aliases. Besides Ralsky, Scott Bradley, his son-in-law, and How Wai John Hui, from Canada, have been indicted in connection with the case.

This development once again makes it abundantly clear that you should always be careful when dealing with unsolicited email communication. If you’re a marketer who cares about reputation, it’s probably a good idea to make sure that your email campaign is playing by the rules and, if possible, measuring up to the highest standards of email marketing—something you can be assured of with Benchmark Email.

Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/11/spam_godfather_alan_ralsky_get.html?wprss=securityfix

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