'Godfather of spam' jailed for illegal email campaign

Noelle McElhatton, Marketing Direct, 27 November 2009, 10:53AM

LONDON - Alan Ralsky, the self-styled 'Godfather of spam,' has been jailed in the US for more than four years for a scam involving the sending of billions of illegal email ads a day.

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