Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person

CrypticSpawn writes "Read on SecurityFocus, a 55 year old woman spammed an FBI computer crime agent. She got caught mailing off a credit card scam to AOL users." Her scam targeted AOL users with messages saying their credit cards were refused during the last billing cycle, and linked to a false billing center page which demanded private information.

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Let em guess she was American ?

[Anonymous Coward]

only in America could someone be stupid enough to do this

luckily i blocked 99.9% of spammers pathetic attempts by blocking the $ and cent sign, voila no spam, no false positives, no frauds , no americans :)

maximum of five years?

[ajuda]

The maximum penalty seems rather meager. She can't exactly argue self-defense, lack of understanding, or accidental-negligence. This is a case of deliberate fraud, a case in which she obviously knew that what she was doing was both immoral and illegal. In my opinion, they should kill her. Really. It's people like her that really make this world suck more than it has to.