AOL and Spam

Pigman · Post by **Pigman** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:36 am

JUNE 23--An AOL software engineer was arrested today for stealing the company's entire subscriber list--totaling 92 million screen names--and selling it to a 21-year-old Las Vegas spammer. According to the below federal criminal complaint, Jason Smathers, 24, last year illegally accessed the highly confidential AOL list by using another employee's identification codes.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0623042aol1.html

Odd ... that is the correct URL

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:52 am

Clicked on the link and Smoking Gun said the article doesn't exist.

Post by **bio** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:35 am

It was there for me.

Not that I feel bad for AOL'ers (they really should try something real), but I have a similar problem with my ISP.

When I signed up with my ISP, they gave me an email account. I have never used it, never subscribed to anything, never sent an email from it, yet I get over 100 spams per day to that account.

How does that happen?

Bastages!

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:43 am

it works now - it did not yesterday.

bio wrote:When I signed up with my ISP, they gave me an email account. I have never used it, never subscribed to anything, never sent an email from it, yet I get over 100 spams per day to that account.

How does that happen?

Trolls or random email generators, I 'spose.

Post by **bio** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:40 am

Doubtful.

I'm convinced that my ISP sells their email addresses. I'm not the only one this has happened to who uses this ISP.

That could be how they keep their prices cheaper than anyone else.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:41 pm

Ahhh...

forgot that some ISP's were Schweinhunden.

That's quite plausible. If ever I move back to Spokane, I'll ask you to tell me who to avoid (or is it your DSL circuit provider doubling as an ISP?).

'Later!

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