Now official news! Last week the unsealing of warrants 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.”
www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0510/16/B01-349738.htm
”Convicted fraudster, spams using hijacked proxies & virus infected PCs and in the past by hijacking mail servers and mail accounts. Hosts sites mostly in China to evade US law.”
Alan Ralsky’s house, now confiscated by FBI:
http://www.2mbit.com/egg/gallery/
More on RICO (Racketeering and Organized Crime Law)
http://www.ricoact.com/
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