Former AOL engineer sentenced in spam case

[mountain_rage]

Aol is once again responsible for spreading the spam it claims it has prevented.

Jason Smathers was an engineer at AOL's Dulles headquarters. AOL is a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) He was charged under the new federal law banning unsolicited and deceptive e-mails. Smathers, who is 25, admitted stealing the list with 92 million AOL subscriber screen names and selling the list for $28,000 to another man, who then sold it to spammers who used it to send out an estimated 7 billion spam e-mails pushing products including herbal sexual enhancement pills.

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http://washington.bizjournals.com/wa...5/daily24.html

http://www.sophos.com/spaminfo/artic...lspamlist.html

[shawners]

28,000 only??? YOur selling a list of AOL users who pay as much as 24.95 for dial up and would buy almost anything that came in their inbox.. Should of sold it for millions.

[silentscream]

another great reason to only use an AOL disk for a coaster :)

i wouldent own any coasters if it wasnt for aol

Greg