[pchelpers] News:AOL phisher faces seven years in jail

He stole info from AOL subscribers, emptied bank accounts
                Gregg Keizer
August 23, 2007   (Computerworld)  -- A 23-year-old man who yesterday pleaded 
guilty to federal charges for his role in a phishing scam that targeted AOL 
users now faces up to seven years in prison.


"[We] are committed to investigating and prosecuting Internet phishing
and other identity theft schemes that wreak havoc on the lives of their
victims," U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said in a statement issued
Wednesday.

Michael Dolan, of West Haven, Conn., and North Miami Beach,
Fla., admitted to his part in a ring of phishing scammers who duped AOL
subscribers into divulging their names, credit card numbers, bank
account numbers, Social Security numbers and other private information.

From 2002 through 2006, Dolan and others used software to
harvest AOL account names from the service's chat rooms, then sent
messages posing as electronic greeting cards that were actually
transporting Trojan horses that infected recipient's PCs. Once
installed, the Trojan blocked access to AOL until the user entered
items, including credit card and bank account numbers in an on-screen
form. The stolen account information, combined with other personal
data, was used to order goods over the Internet, as well as to crank
out counterfeit debit cards used at ATMs to clean out accounts.


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