AOL customer list stolen, sold to spammer
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A former AOL employee (Jason Smathers) was charged Wednesday with stealing the Internet provider's entire subscriber list -- over 30 million consumers, and their 90 million screen names -- and selling it to a spammer (Las Vegas resident Sean Dunaway).... After stealing the entire screen name database in May 2003, Smathers went back and got an update in March 2004, taking another 18 million screen names. Dunaway paid $100,000 to Smathers for the updated list, and later sold it to the unnamed spammer for $32,000. Full Story[^] If anyone deserves the death penalty, Smathers does :mad: Steve
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A former AOL employee (Jason Smathers) was charged Wednesday with stealing the Internet provider's entire subscriber list -- over 30 million consumers, and their 90 million screen names -- and selling it to a spammer (Las Vegas resident Sean Dunaway).... After stealing the entire screen name database in May 2003, Smathers went back and got an update in March 2004, taking another 18 million screen names. Dunaway paid $100,000 to Smathers for the updated list, and later sold it to the unnamed spammer for $32,000. Full Story[^] If anyone deserves the death penalty, Smathers does :mad: Steve
It's ok, it's AOL.
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It's ok, it's AOL.
No, it's not OK. It's BILLIONS more email messages clogging up YOUR Internet bandwidth. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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A former AOL employee (Jason Smathers) was charged Wednesday with stealing the Internet provider's entire subscriber list -- over 30 million consumers, and their 90 million screen names -- and selling it to a spammer (Las Vegas resident Sean Dunaway).... After stealing the entire screen name database in May 2003, Smathers went back and got an update in March 2004, taking another 18 million screen names. Dunaway paid $100,000 to Smathers for the updated list, and later sold it to the unnamed spammer for $32,000. Full Story[^] If anyone deserves the death penalty, Smathers does :mad: Steve
Steve Mayfield wrote: If anyone deserves the death penalty, Smathers does Anyone who works or uses AOL deserve it :) Yes, even I am blogging now!
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No, it's not OK. It's BILLIONS more email messages clogging up YOUR Internet bandwidth. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
Sorry, I forgot the /sarcasim.
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Sorry, I forgot the /sarcasim.
No, no, no... It's
<sarcasm>stuff</sarcasm>. It's my fault, actually. I've been really stressed lately and need to go rent a sense of hmor for a while! :rolleyes: RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome -
A former AOL employee (Jason Smathers) was charged Wednesday with stealing the Internet provider's entire subscriber list -- over 30 million consumers, and their 90 million screen names -- and selling it to a spammer (Las Vegas resident Sean Dunaway).... After stealing the entire screen name database in May 2003, Smathers went back and got an update in March 2004, taking another 18 million screen names. Dunaway paid $100,000 to Smathers for the updated list, and later sold it to the unnamed spammer for $32,000. Full Story[^] If anyone deserves the death penalty, Smathers does :mad: Steve
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Steve Mayfield wrote: Dunaway paid $100,000 to Smathers for the updated list, and later sold it to the unnamed spammer for $32,000. Stunning business plan.
pnjoyce wrote: Stunning business plan. I was thinking that, But maybe he thought he could sell more copies. Regardz Colin J Davies
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No, it's not OK. It's BILLIONS more email messages clogging up YOUR Internet bandwidth. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: It's BILLIONS more email messages clogging up YOUR Internet bandwidth If you look on the bright side, at least there won't be as many bouncing messages clogging up the bandwidth as there would be if the list had contained the millions of fake addresses the spammer was complaining about in the first place.
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