Chris Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 An AOL engineer was arrested this week and charged with selling over 93 million AOL email addresses to spammers. The 24-year-old employee was arrested at his home in West Virginia on Wednesday, while a compatriot, who brokered the email addresses to spammers, was arrested in Las Vegas.Both were charged with violating a new federal antispam law, which took affect January 1. Under the new law, each defendant could face 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or twice the loss from their activities, whichever is higher.The AOL employee allegedly stole the identity of another AOL employee in 2003 in order to gain access to AOL's list of member screen names, which also includes private information like telephone numbers, ZIP code, and type of credit card used to pay their AOL bill; it did not, however, include the actual credit card numbers, which AOL stores in a separate database.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 I hope they throw the book at him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 I bet you that ass sold my e-mail coz ive been getin loads of spam these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 When they throw the book I hope it hits his head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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