An AOL employee sent to prison for 15 months for selling member details to spammers.
Spam is dealt pretty seriously nowadays, aint it.
Article link: http://www.iwebtool.com/news/4162320/jail_for_aol_e-mail_scammer
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SirDave posted this at 13:57—20th August 2005.
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No wonder AOL sucks.
JeevesBond posted this at 16:29—20th August 2005.
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Cripes, sometimes I wonder what keeps that company going. But then my house-mate was looking at Dell computers packages, they "recommend" AOL, ram it down enough people's necks and someone will think it's good *sigh*
Although it's a good thing that guy was jailed - spam is evil!
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Greg K posted this at 18:45—25th August 2005.
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Shouldn't that statement have a (TM) Microsoft Corporation after it? Sounds like their motto...
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kusdumdotcom posted this at 17:27—25th August 2005.
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aiya good that my email wasn't sold, i don't receive any spams hehe =)
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bja888 posted this at 21:00—25th August 2005.
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I have used aol a few times before (all my clients have it). AOL is spam... How can someone get in trouble for company policy? It's like they make u pay an arm and a leg for their service then spam you the whole time via ads, e-mails and random offers you must click through.
You can’t call their customer service and talk to someone in this country. You can’t call with a serious question or problem and expect it to be answered. It’s like calling dell! (Is the computer plugged in?)
Time Warner used to go by "An AOL Time Warner Company". Not any more! Guess why!
BTW that artical is written for aol users. Read it, there is sooo much BS.
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farmer_Tom posted this at 02:52—26th August 2005.
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Not to defend this guy (selling info is definetely fraud) but how much information did he sell... that's how to know if the law got it right...if he sold 10% of their user base, he deserves more time in the cooler but if he sold 150 users out then the sentence seems justified as long as AOL reimburses any damage he caused
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bja888 posted this at 11:14—26th August 2005.
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You dident read it did you. Thats the first line. He only got $28,000. For that he should of gotten at least $500,000.
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