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AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme

Posted by simoniker on from the america-shaking-fist-online dept.

LostCluster writes "The AP, Reuters, and AOL's own CNN/Money are all reporting that AOL employee Jason Smathers has been arrested and accused of taking a list of 92 million screennames from the internal AOL system, and selling it to another man, who allegedly used it 'to promote his own Internet gambling business and also sold the list to other spammers for $52,000'. Not surprisingly, Smathers has been fired."

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  1. Yet another... by Ms.XingTianCai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    reason not to use AOL.

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  2. Freedom of information is great... by c0ldfusi0n · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Get it all here.

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  3. smoking gun link by L0stm4n · · Score: 0, Redundant

    smoking gun has more info

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