Alan Ralsky sentenced to 4 years in jail

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<http://techdirt.com/articles/20091124/0239137065.shtml>

Spam King Alan Ralsky Gets Four Years In Jail
from the how's-that-house-looking-now? dept

Remember Alan Ralsky? The "spam king" came to be well known online in 
2002 after agreeing to a profile in the Detroit Free Press, where he 
bragged about all the spamming he did and the huge house it had bought 
him. The folks on Slashdot decided to do something about Ralsky, and 
started signing him up for all sorts of snail mail marketing offers, so 
his real life mailbox was overflowing with ads. The humor-impaired 
Ralsky apparently couldn't see the irony, saying he was going to sue the 
people involved. He never seemed to actually get around to that. 
Instead, while it took quite some time, law enforcement started 
investigating Ralsky. While he had loudly insisted that the CAN SPAM law 
wouldn't impact him, the FBI disagreed. Last year, he was finally 
indicted. Earlier this year he entered a guilty plea and has now been 
sentenced to four years in jail for his spamming and fraud activities -- 
reported in the same Detroit Free Press that ran that original profile 
of him. Maybe he should have avoided bragging about the mansion that 
spam built.

Article at the Detroit Free Press has more details:

<http://www.freep.com/article/20091123/NEWS05/91123066/1002/BUSINESS/Spam-King-gets-4-years-for-fraud>

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