Showing posts with the label jail

FBI Raids Spammer Outed by KrebsOnSecurity

Another spammer put under the microscope! Brian Krebs reports on the FBI arrest of Michael A. Persaud , reported to be one of the world's top ten spammers.

Sanford Wallace gets jail time for FB scam

Ah,  Sanford Wallace . 1990s spammer, widely blocked and blacklisted, one of a few big bad spammers who made the rest of us realize that spam was a real problem and that we had to do something about it. Way back in 1999, in a Usenet discussion thread about Sanford, one of my fe…

Neutraceutical Spammer Sentenced to 2 Years

John Levine shares his tale of the sentencing of Brian McDaid, "Neutraceutical" spammer. Looks like it is indeed possible to get jail time for violating CAN-SPAM.

Alan Ralsky Goes to Jail, Does Not Pass Go

Spamhaus reports: "Leaving a wake of over 12-years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO listed spammer Alan Ralsky is finally behind the walls of a US Federal Prison. After pleading guilty to multiple federal criminal charges, …

Ralsky Gets 51 Months in Prison

Alan Ralsky, a pump-and-dump spammer noted by Spamhaus as one of the world's top ten worst spammers for " quite some time ," is off to camp fed for 51 months. Anti-spammers are torn between cheering for his downfall and annoyance that the sentence doesn't incl…