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	Alan Ralsky, King of Spam - Biography of Famous Spammers
		Alan Ralsky, dubbed the King of Spam is one of the world's most notorious spammer who confessed to have sent up to 70 million emails a day.
		October 2002, Verizon and Alan Ralsky reached a settlement in its lawsuit which saw an injunction and an undisclosed monetary payment to Verizon.
		Alan Ralsky changes his approach to include certain information required by the law.
	www.spam-site.com /spammer-alan-ralsky.shtml (563 words)

	Archive: Ralsky Loses (Headline) December 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Though spam experts have always felt that the Ralsky syndicate was responsible for significant spam, no one realized that stopping this particular gang would have such dramatic results.
		Alan Ralsky is no stranger to the legal system.
		Ralsky had admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, nor does it stop him from spamming non Verizon users, but it's a start.
	www.pacranch.com /newsletter/ralskylosesdecember2002.html (330 words)

	MIKE WENDLAND: Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles
		Ralsky said the legal fuss and settlement costs were a big hit and that things slowed down for a while.
		Ralsky used to be easy to locate, with a listed address and phone number.
		Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
	www.cs.uga.edu /~kangli/localCopy/spam_king.htm (1647 words)

	CMS - InPrint - Detroit News - Junk e-mail foes target spam king
		Ralsky wouldn't name his clients, but Harrison said they include software wholesalers, offers for weight loss and firms that arrange government grants and auto loans.
		Unlike spammers, Ralsky said he maintains files with 87 million e-mail addresses of computer users who ask to be removed from his blanket solicitations.
		Verizon Internet Services is suing Alan Ralsky in Virginia, which has one of the toughest laws against bulk e-mail in the nation.
	www.cmsconnect.com /News/CMSInPrint/DN-020804-pg2.htm (1252 words)

	Alan Ralsky, King of Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Don’t start celebrating yet, Ralsky plans to resume his spam again in January after he overcomes some computer problems and only after he changes his practices to include in his messages a return address and other information required by the CAN-SPAM law, which stands for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
		But Ralsky, who lives in a Detroit suburb, says the law's potential penalties — fines of up to $6 million and up to five years in jail — are making him rethink his business.
		At 58, Alan Ralsky seems an incongruous character in an industry largely made up of men from the Nintendo generation.
	www.thenetworkadministrator.com /AlanRalskyKingofSpam.htm (380 words)

	Spam Daily News \| Spam King Alan Ralsky not jailed
		She also mentioned that the spam underground community were in fear of Ralsky making a deal with the DoJ in an attempt to garner a reduced sentence.
		Ralsky has long been identified as one of the world's largest spammers by anti-spam organization Spamhaus.
		Ralsky was said to have been out of business but not shut down.
	www.spamdailynews.com /publish/Spam_King_Alan_Ralsky_not_jailed.asp (342 words)

	CMS - InPrint - Detroit News - Junk e-mail foes target spam king
		Ralsky claims he is trying to make an honest living in an industry riddled with cons, but he is one of the most despised men in some corners of the Internet.
		Ralsky is a central figure in the international battle over spam, one that pits cleaning up cyberspace of unwanted e-mail against arguments that doing so trods on free-speech rights.
		Ralsky's lawyer, Robert S. Harrison of Bloomfield Hills, said the Verizon suit -- and actions by the anti-spam "Gestapo" -- are the first volleys in a fight that ultimately could decide who controls the Internet.
	www.cmsconnect.com /News/CMSInPrint/DN-020804.htm (1356 words)

	World's Top 10 Spammers - AmazingTechs.com
		Ralsky, who is in his late 50s, has been among the nation’s biggest spammers since entering the business in 1997 while recovering from bankruptcy — one of nine filings dating back to 1993 -- and the loss of his insurance license.
		Ralsky has boasted in various media interviews that he has the capability of sending tens of thousands of e-mails an hour pitching such products and services as mortgages, vacations, online pharmacies and casinos for clients, relayed through servers in the United States and abroad.
		Since they've been at this since 1997, Ralsky and gang know just about every spammer trick in the book, hijacking foreign mailservers to hide their tracks and avoid filters, using free websites, fake free websites, obfuscating URL's, encrypting webpages, and always having a backup system for the inevitable time when their current accounts are canceled.
	amazingtechs.com /index.php?showtopic=6732 (949 words)

	Spam Daily News \| Spam King Alan Ralsky rumored to be in jail
		Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag has an unconfirmed report from someone saying that Alan Ralsky is currently being held by the feds and his file is sealed for the next 72hrs by the DOJ.
		Ralsky is a near legend in the spam community -- the subject of a raft of lawsuits from Verizon and others for his shameless spamming activity.
		Ralsky claims that he is not a spammer, but a legitimate email marketer who abides by the law.
	www.spamdailynews.com /publish/Spam_King_Alan_Ralsky_rumored_to_be_in_jail.asp (712 words)

	Alan Ralsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralsky gained much of his notoriety following a December 2002 interview with The Detroit News.
		In early October 2005, a warrant was unsealed, showing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided Alan Ralsky's home in September.
		Ralsky got into the bulk e-mail business after his licenses to sell insurance were revoked in Michigan and Illinois in 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Ralsky (393 words)

	Suspected spam king shut down - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Alan M Ralsky is notorious in the spam world, and has had a series of run-ins with the authorities over the years," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
		Ralsky has long been identified as one of the world's largest spammers by anti-spam organisation Spamhaus.
		In 2002 Ralsky settled a case with US telco Verizon over charges that he used its network to send out large amounts of spam.
	www.vnunet.com /2144005 (561 words)

	ALAN RALSKY: Scoop: DOJ jails Spam King! Alan Ralsky might rat out a massive hacker / spammer network - Valleywag
		Local hacker "Memehacker" IMed in with a scoop on Alan Ralsky, the famed "Spam King" covered by the Observer and the Detroit News.
		Memehacker: Alan Ralsky is currently being held by the feds and his file is sealed for the next 72hrs by the DOJ.
		MH: Ralsky is known as the Spam King.
	www.valleywag.com /tech/alan-ralsky/scoop-doj-jails-spam-king-alan-ralsky-might-rat-out-a-massive-hacker-spammer-network-170385.php (739 words)

	DailyTech - Spam King Alan Ralsky Not Jailed
		Ralsky was picked up last Friday and was being held under a sealed indictment that was due to be opened yesterday.
		It is worth mentioning that Alan Ralsky’s home and datacenter were raided last year and equipment was confiscated by federal authorities but no arrests were made.
		Ralsky is not in custody, in fact he is happily living in the home where he has lived the past 5 years, 3 miles away from my own home in West Bloomfield, Mi.
	www.dailytech.com /article.aspx?newsid=2048 (835 words)

	FBI puts stop to spam king - 10/16/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 2002, Ralsky agreed to an undisclosed cash settlement to end a landmark lawsuit from Verizon Internet Services, which alleged he twice paralyzed its network in 2000 with his pitches for diet pills, vacations and such.
		Ralsky spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on software to comply with the law, said Philip Kushner, his Cleveland lawyer.
		A few years ago, Ralsky was deluged with hundreds of unwanted magazines at his house, after anti-spammers signed him up for subscriptions.
	www.detnews.com /2005/technology/0510/16/B01-349738.htm (851 words)

	The J-Walk Blog: Alan Ralsky Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		World-class spammer Alan Ralsky is in the news again.
		Alan Ralsky, thought to be one of the world's most prolific spammers, has had his operation shut down after raids by the FBI.
		Warrants unsealed last week show that the FBI raided Ralsky's home in September and seized financial records, computers and disks.
	j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/posts/alan_ralsky_again (73 words)

	Alan Stories - RoomforMilk News Feed from Slashdot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dec 17th, 2006 · Alan H. Goldstein, inventor of the A-PRIZE, and popular science columnist, says: Scientists are on the verge of breaking the carbon barrier — creating artificial life and changing forever what it means to be human.
		From the article: "Alan was on the other side of the room from the laptop.
		May 24th, 2005 · In its return from a sabbatical, Lying In The Gutters reports that Alan Moore, author of the V For Vendetta comic, has publically disassociated himself from the movie of the same name, and disputes claims of support made by Joel Silver.
	www.roomformilk.com /find/alan (608 words)

	InfoWorld Tech Watch \| InfoWorld \| Hackers quaking over reported Spam King's arrest \| April 28, 2006 02:10 PM \| By Paul ...
		According to an unconfirmed report, spam king Alan Ralsky has been arrested by federal law enforcement and is being held pending the release of a sealed indictment against him.
		The problem: Ralsky apparently has the goods on a wide swath of the hacker underground, and folks there are really worried he's gonna spill the beans to the feds in return for a lesser sentence.
		Ralsky's tentacles strectched far beyond the spamming scene, the thinking goes -- in his quest to make dough, he made connections across the underworld.
	weblog.infoworld.com /techwatch/archives/006143.html (976 words)

	FBI Raid Closes Spam Operation
		Following an FBI raid on his Detroit suburban home last month, Alan Ralsky, currently ranked by Spamhaus as the world's most prolific spammer, says he is unable to operate the lucrative business he calls commercial bulk e-mailing.
		Ralsky, who served three years' probation in the 1990s for falsifying bank records, has long been a target of anti-spam groups and law enforcement officials.
		In 2002, Ralsky settled out of court with Verizon for allegedly flooding the inboxes of its subscribers with spam advertising diet pills, online gambling, credit repair tools, new car-buying services, computer programs and home-based business opportunities.
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3556941 (721 words)

	broadband help » News » Alan Ralsky Ratting on Associates? - Rumor: Spam king in FBI custody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the more loathed spammers in the industry, Alan Ralsky, has been arrested and is being detained by the Department of Justice, according to posts in NANAE and discussion in our stopping spam forum.
		As the rumor stands, Ralsky is preparing to rat out some of his associates to avoid jail-time.
		Hayward, CA Ralsky is preparing to rat out some of his associates to avoid jail-time.
	www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/74008 (1687 words)

	Spam Laws: Verizon v. Ralsky
		Defendants Alan Ralsky and Lance McDonald are residents of Michigan.
		Defendants Ralsky, McDonald and Additional Benefits are alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to transmit the UBE at issue here.
		Finally, Ralsky serves as the registered agent for Defendant Additional Benefits and his home is listed as the address for service of process.
	www.spamlaws.com /cases/ralsky.shtml (10149 words)

	Technology Review: Spam Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Repudiating pornography to his wife, Ralsky rented mailing lists and set up servers in his basement, according to media interviews he gave last year.
		After moving into a $740,000 house in a Detroit suburb, Ralsky set up another basement operation that was soon spewing tens of thousands of messages per hour, relayed through servers in Dallas and in Canada, China, Russia, and India.
		Nelson and Ralsky are just two of the many faces behind spam.
	www.technologyreview.com /InfoTech/13250 (848 words)

	David Rowan: The Times: Tech column - Alan Ralsky/E-bombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		YOU WILL NOT know his name, but there is a very good chance that you have been receiving e-mails from Alan Ralsky.
		With his database of 250 million addresses, Ralsky, a 57-year-old based in Michigan, is one of the world's most prolific "spammers", whose 190 e-mail servers can send out 650,000 unsolicited sales pitches every hour.
		Ralsky makes his money from clients who find that his "e-mail marketing messages", as he euphemistically calls them, actually work - with a claimed response rate of a quarter of one per cent.
	www.davidrowan.com /2002/12/times-tech-column-alan-ralskye-bombs.html (807 words)

	http://wickedstageact2.typepad.com/life_on_the_wicked_stage_/2006/04/maybe_there_is_.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alan Ralsky, the well known "spam king" who proudly bragged about his spamming escapades to a newspaper reporter...
		According to an u nconfirmed report, spam king Alan Ralsky has been arrested by federal law enforcement and is being held pending the release of a sealed indictment against him.
		The problem: Ralsky apparently has the goods on a wide swath of the hacker underground, and folks there are really worried...
	tailrank.com /posts/562949953578744 (341 words)

	Spam King Inundated By Junk Mail, Fails To See The Irony \|\| The Mac Observer
		Mike Wendland penned a piece a few weeks ago about how spam lord Alan Ralsky was living high on the proceeds from wasting all of our time with his spam.
		Ralsky is having his attorney sue the anti-spammers behind the campaign.
		Ralsky is one such person, and it is remarkable he has the gall to get angry about the snail mail spam he is now getting.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2002/12/06.11.shtml (841 words)

	Spam King Alan Ralsky in Custody, Spam Network in Jeopardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Word on the street has it that Alan Ralsky, the so-called Spam King, has been taken into custody by the Department of Justice (DOJ), where they are attempting to put the squeeze on him to have him give up all his spammer cronies and their spamming networks.
		Douglas quotes one of his sources as saying “Alan Ralsky is currently being held by the feds and his file is sealed for the next 72hrs by the DOJ.
		According to the word, getting Ralsky to “narq out the entire network” was exactly the DOJ’s plan, and they were none too pleased to have it start to crumble as word of his detention got out.
	www.theinternetpatrol.com /spam-king-alan-ralsky-in-custody-spam-network-in-jeopardy (883 words)

	Christmas clue giving - Network World
		Note that my editor has threatened me with grievous bodily harm if I write about spam anymore, but given the number of letters I receive on the topic I feel the risk is worth it for a quick story of a spammer who is getting his just desserts.
		Ralsky has made a fortune sending spam on behalf of others and, in the process, has become notorious and not a little disliked.
		As it turns out, Ralsky recently purchased an expensive house in West Bloomfield, Ill., and that made him relatively easy to find (apparently the transaction is listed in the Oakland County real estate records).
	www.networkworld.com /columnists/2002/1216gibbs.html (844 words)

	Sick of spam? Then blame Alan Ralsky. He emails a billion of them a day \| Technology \| Guardian Unlimited Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is thought that as few as 150 spammers are responsible for 90 per cent of junk mail.
		One of the most prolific is Alan Ralsky, who is rare among spammers in having a public media profile.
		Victims got their own back when Ralsky's address was posted on the internet by anti-spammers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /online/news/0,12597,968172,00.html (985 words)

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