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A guy who phished data out of AOL users for several years is getting several years in prison.
Ars Technica reports: “You’ve got jail!”
[Michael] Dolan and a group of co-conspirators ran a scheme from 2002-2006 in which they first trolled AOL chatrooms for user names, then bombarded these users with phishing attempts.
Victims typically received a link to a false greeting card which, when opened, installed a malware package. The next time the target attempted to log on to AOL, the program would request credit card numbers, bank account data, or other personal information. Users who refused to enter the data were prevented from logging into AOL. As schemes go, this was a fairly novel idea at the time, and I actually remember running into several systems infected this way. Dolan also sent spam purporting to be from AOL’s billing department, asking customers to please reenter their billing details due to a server meltdown.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
(Via Megan McArdle.)
unimpressed »
17 August 2008 · 10:49 am
This guy (and any others like him) doesn’t deserve jail time. Electrocution is too good.
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18 August 2008 · 11:56 am
Best headline of the week
“You’ve got jail! AOL spammer sentenced to seven years” from ars technica. (via dustbury, who knows a good headline)