U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan, was sentenced to 51 months in prison 64-year-old spammer Alan Ralsko (Alan Ralsky), who called himself "the godfather of spam," writes IDG News.
Ralsko was found guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud, and violation of CAN-SPAM Act of distribution of commercial information in June. Prior to that he also several times on suspicion of violating the law. In particular, in 1995 - in a bank fraud.
In Ralsko to 40 months in prison sentenced his son in law Scott Bradley (Scott Bradley). Another two other accomplices gave, respectively, 51 and 32 months. Sentence also expect another five people. In the remaining two spammers prosecuted.
Spammer and his associates send spam messages with the help of a botnet. The reports they had tried to persuade users to buy certain shares, thereby increasing the demand for them and raising prices. As a result, they expected to quickly sell the existing securities before prices fall again.
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