[LINK] Spam's poster boy indicted

[Jan Whitaker]

  http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/01/03/us.spam/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
  Spam's 'poster boy' indicted
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A man described as one of U.S.'s most prolific 
senders of spam e-mail was indicted by a federal grand jury over a 
fraud scheme that manipulated Chinese stock prices, the Justice 
Department said Thursday.

Alan Ralsky, 52, has been indicted in a spam scheme that netted $3 
million in 2005.

Alan Ralsky, 52, was among 11 defendants named in the 41-count 
indictment, returned by a grand jury in Detroit. Authorities said he 
made millions of dollars by manipulating the stock prices through a 
massive global spamming operation.

Dubbed the "the poster boy for spam," Ralsky, of West Bloomfield, 
Michigan, is widely known for high-profile legal battles involving 
spamming operations that tout everything from mortgages to stocks to 
diet pills, .

Ralsky remained at large Thursday evening, but his son-in-law Scott 
Bradley was arrested Thursday along with another defendant, Judy 
Devenow, and both appeared in federal court for arraignment, the 
Justice Department said in a statement.

A third defendant, How Wai John Hui of Vancouver, Canada, and Hong 
Kong, was arrested in New York on Wednesday. The remaining 
defendants, from Arizona, California and Russia, were being sought, 
authorities said.

The defendants are accused of making $3 million during the summer of 
2005 alone as a result of illegal spamming activities, authorities said.
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