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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 2003-09-24
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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