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Spammers dislike the taste of their own medicine.

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lowtech1

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It is the best story I have heard so far this year, that a spammer wanted to sue anti spamer for unsolicit junk mails.

LOL!


MIKE WENDLAND: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out.

December 6, 2002

BY MIKE WENDLAND
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine.

Ever since I wrote a story on him a couple of weeks ago (www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm), he says he's been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 home.

It's all the result of a well-organized campaign by the anti-spam community, and Ralsky doesn't find it funny.

"They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me."

That they are. Gleefully. Almost 300 anti-Ralsky posts were made on the Slashdot.org Web site, where the plan was hatched after spam haters posted his address, even an aerial view of his neighborhood.

"Several tons of snail mail spam every day might just annoy him as much as his spam annoys me," wrote one of the anti-spammers.

Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.

[eidt] spelling 😱
 
So what is his address? I didn't see it in the story.


UPDATE.

Its listed at the slashdot.org site

Alan M Ralsky
6747 Minnow Pond Dr
West Bloowfield Township, MI 48322-2663

I guess not re-reading the article first was my bad, sorry.

But how can this guy get mad. Its a public address and all he has to do is write each bad peice of mail and tell them no 😉 same as with his spam
 
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
So what is his address? I didn't see it in the story.


UPDATE.

Its listed at the slashdot.org site

Alan M Ralsky
6747 Minnow Pond Dr
West Bloowfield Township, MI 48322-2663

I guess not re-reading the article first was my bad, sorry.

But how can this guy get mad. Its a public address and all he has to do is write each bad peice of mail and tell them no 😉 same as with his spam
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What about his email address? 😕
 
I feel bad for his postman, but the post office could use the business. Imagine going through thousands of pieces of mail to find your bills and regular mail. That would suck.
 
Originally posted by: her209
Its a felony to sign up for something under the identity of someone else. Its called FRAUD.
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What do call email that have fault return addresses that spammers uses?

What do you call people that uses your address to send email to you?

What do you call people that keep on using your address & selling it with out your authorization, and keep on doing it when you ask them to stop?
 
Originally posted by: lowtech
Originally posted by: her209
Its a felony to sign up for something under the identity of someone else. Its called FRAUD.
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What do call email that have fault return addresses that spammers uses?

What do you call people that uses your address to send email to you?

What do you call people that keep on using your address & selling it with out your authorization, and keep on doing it when you ask them to stop?
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Two wrongs don't make a right.

 
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: lowtech
Originally posted by: her209
Its a felony to sign up for something under the identity of someone else. Its called FRAUD.
Click to expand...
What do call email that have fault return addresses that spammers uses?

What do you call people that uses your address to send email to you?

What do you call people that keep on using your address & selling it with out your authorization, and keep on doing it when you ask them to stop?
Click to expand...
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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I agree, but did you read the article that this criminal got charged byt the state for spam. And, he didn?t learn his lesson by moving to another state & move his server over sea to restart his operation.

What do you do if the law protects the criminals?

The scum deserve what got.
In America you can shoot an intruder then ask later under the law of self-defense, therefore the anti-spammers could say that they has done in self-defense by sending spam to his home. I personally don?t think many judge would charge anyone for send junk mail to him, because the anti-spammers could claim ignorance therefore they may get a warning. In his book that it is perfectly legal for people out side of the US to sign him up for junk mails, and there about 6 billions of us out there, so beware. Alan Ralsky is a known criminal that has a record much longer than most if not all of people that may have done him, that this class action teaches him harassment will not be tolerate.

Spam king lives large off others' e-mail troubles

Ralsky acknowledges that his success with spam arose out of a less-than-impressive business background. In 1992, while in the insurance business, he served a 50-day jail term for a charge arising out of the sale of unregistered securities. And in 1994, he was convicted of falsifying documents that defrauded financial institutions in Michigan and Ohio and ordered to pay $74,000 in restitution.
 
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