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Prison time for unlucky phisher
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-01-21

An Ohio woman who used forged e-mails from "AOL security" to swindle America Online subscribers out of their credit card numbers was sentenced to 46 months in prison Tuesday, after a federal judge in Virginia rejected her plea for a reduced sentence.

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Prison time for unlucky phisher 2004-01-22
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Good lord. What has gone wrong with natural selection?

It would be really nice if all criminals were this abysmally stupid.

It would be really nice if all users weren't so abysmally stupid.

If I were judge, i'd have considered clemency based on the fact that the targets were AOLers.

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