Judy Devenow pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges Tuesday in federal court in Michigan, admitting she had sent millions of spam e-mails a day helping spam kingpin Alan Ralsky.
Devenow said she was paid US$150,000 to send e-mail and manage others from January 2004 through September 2005. She, Ralsky and nine other people were charged in January 2008. Thomas Dukes, who specializes in computer crimes at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington DC, is quoted as saying that Ralsky sent tens of millions of e-mails over a 20-month period - and that’s a “conservative number,” Dukes told the judge. We agree; Spamhaus regularly sees spammers like Ralsky and his gang sending tens of millions of spam e-mails each day. They use innocent people’s virus infected PCs to do this and also forge the addresses of innocent people onto the spam’s “From:” line (”spoofing”) causing untold damage and costs.
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