Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI

Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-09-19

An Ohio woman accused in federal court of using mass forged e-mails from "AOL security" to swindle America Online subscribers out of their credit card numbers was allegedly tracked down after spamming exactly the wrong person: an FBI agent specializing in computer fraud, according to court records.

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Accused AOL Phisher Spammed the FBI 2003-09-20
Anonymous (2 replies)

Isn't phishing supposed to be finding stuff on the net fast? What does a credit card scam have to do with that. Or are they talking about finding creditcard numbers?...

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Accused AOL Phisher Spammed the FBI 2003-09-23
Aleph_null

the term "phishing" could be used a lot of different ways. I have heard it used in this context. All of the AOL vb programs made around 95-97 had cc phisher options on them (this being the first place I came across the term)....

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Accused AOL Phisher Spammed the FBI 2003-09-24
Anonymous

Nope I never heard of Phishing in any other term. It has been an AOL term for trying to trick people into sending back that information or account information when then they use Phake (Another term) names on the accounts to then Phish for more Accounts or cridit card numbers. The reason the try to g...

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Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI 2003-09-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

Finaly they are busting real criminals....

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Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI 2003-09-23
Anonymous

yea finally, once one of those fbi bastards gets some scam email they get busted. Meanwhile my bulk mail is filling up EVERY DAY, i have to emtpy it constantly w/ scams and fake virii claiming to be microsoft patches. Why dont they start helping out the common joe schmoe when shit like this happen...

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Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI 2003-09-22
Anonymous

I recently received one of these scams from "ebay" and did what I could to gather a small amount of information and I forwarded that all to the local FBI Office.

After a traceroute pointed to a 'server' with no DNS listing in Korea, I figured that there is little that the FBI will be able ...

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Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI 2003-09-22
Anonymous

Hahaha... This is the funniest story ever.

These guys sure met their makers. They deserve it....

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