Online Ad Spammer Gets His Own Medicine

Now here’s a guy who really doesn’t know what irony is. We are harrasing him? What the hell does he think he is doing to us? Get a clue, dude.

MIKE WENDLAND: Internet Spammer Can’t Take What He Dishes Out

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.

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.”

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