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The end of an era?

Alan Ralsky… His name is too familiar to the veterans of the anti-spam industry.

He was notorious for the “stock pump-n-dump” scam e-mails and was the #1 spammer on the SpamHaus’s The 10 Worst Spammers” list as early as November 2005:

Today, one of the world’s first spam kings pleaded guilty “to charges of violating federal anti-spam laws by sending millions of emails in a stock-fraud scheme”.

It’s good to see anti-spam laws like the CAN-SPAM Act being put to use.


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