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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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 to do, except perhaps notify the ISP of what appears to be a home PC connected to broadband...

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