OT: for those interested in news about SPAM
- From: "G. Waleed Kavalec" <Kavalec@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:59:15 -0500
AOL Insider Charged With Selling Addresses To Spammers
Wed Jun 23, 7:00 PM ET Add Technology - TechWeb to My Yahoo!
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - An America Online software engineer was charged
Wednesday with harvesting a list of 92 million customer screen names
that was eventually used to send spam.
Jason Smathers, 24, was arrested at his home in Harpers Ferry, W.Va.,
authorities in New York said.
Smathers, working at AOL offices in Dulles, Va., stole the list of
screen names and sold it to another man, Sean Dunaway, of Las Vegas, who
repeatedly sold the list to spammers, federal prosecutors said in a
criminal complaint.
Dunaway, 21, also was arrested at his home Wednesday, authorities said.
Both men were charged with conspiracy. Their lawyers could not
immediately be located for comment.
Smathers was fired Wednesday, an AOL spokesman said. Dunaway did not
work for the company.
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What's his email address, I wonder?
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