Note: the valleywag.com report is *UNCONFIRMED* by any other source at this time. It's been picked-up/repeated in several other places, but _all_ the reports trace back to this single 'pseudonymous' source of unknown credibility.
There is some suspici> " Local hacker 'Memehacker' ('instant messaged') in with a scoop on
Alan Ralsky, the famed 'Spam King' covered by the Observer and the
> Detroit News. Here's the breaking story:
> " Valleywag: 'Tell me the scoop in three sentences.
> " Memehacker: 'Alan Ralsky is currently being held by the feds and his
> file is sealed for the next 72 hours by the DOJ. We are concerned that
> he is going to narq out the entire network since they have enough on
> him to send him to jail.
> " 'This means hackers, spammers, anyone who has worked in spam legally
> or illegally for the last 5 years at least. The DOJ wants to do a
> dragnet, they have the top dog, but they want the whole system as > well ...
>
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