Wednesday, June 23, 2004
More SPAM Arrests
NEW YORK (AP) An America Online software engineer stole a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send massive amounts of e-mail spam, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jason Smathers, 24, was arrested at his home in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and was charged with conspiracy.
Smathers, working at AOL offices in Dulles, Va., stole the list and sold it to a Las Vegas man, Sean Dunaway, who used it to promote an Internet gambling operation and sold it to spammers, a criminal complaint said.
Dunaway, 21, also was arrested at his home and was charged with conspiracy.
Read more at CBSNEWS.COM ...........
Jason Smathers, 24, was arrested at his home in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and was charged with conspiracy.
Smathers, working at AOL offices in Dulles, Va., stole the list and sold it to a Las Vegas man, Sean Dunaway, who used it to promote an Internet gambling operation and sold it to spammers, a criminal complaint said.
Dunaway, 21, also was arrested at his home and was charged with conspiracy.
Read more at CBSNEWS.COM ...........
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