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AOL
worker arrested in spam scheme
Jason Smathers is charged with stealing his emplo=
yer's
subscriber list and selling it.
June 23, 2004: 5:37 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A software
engineer at America Online was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing
AOL's subscriber list and selling it to someone sending spam e-mail, federal
prosecutors in New York said. =
According to the criminal complaint, J=
ason
Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., used his inside knowledge of AOL's compu=
ter
system to steal a list of 92 million AOL customer account "screen
names," and then sold them to Sean Dunaway, who is not an AOL employee=
.
Dunaway, of Las Vegas, NV., was accuse=
d of
using the list to promote his own Internet gambling business and also sold =
the
list to other spammers for $52,000, according to David Kelley, the U.S.
attorney for the Southern District of New York.
The complaint further charges that Dun=
away
later paid Smathers $100,000 for an updated version of AOL's customer list.=
Megan Gaffney, a spokeswoman with the =
U.S.
Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, confirmed that both men
appeared in court Wednesday.
Dunaway, 21, attended federal court in=
Las
Vegas, and Smathers, 24, made his initial federal court appearance in Virgi=
nia.
Smathers will be detained overnight until a detention hearing tomorrow, Gaf=
fney
said.
Defense lawyers could not be reached f=
or
comment.
The two men each face a maximum senten=
ce of
five years in prison and a fine of $250,000, according to prosecutors.=
An AOL spokesman said Smathers has been
fired from the company.
"We deeply regret what has taken =
place
and are thoroughly reviewing and strengthening our internal procedures as a=
result
of this investigation and arrest," AOL said in a statement.=
According to the complaint, Smathers u=
sed
another employee's ID in April and May 2003 to assemble a complete list of
AOL's customer account screen names, zip codes, telephone numbers and credit
card types.
"(But) AOL has uncovered no infor=
mation
indicating that this theft involved member credit card or password informat=
ion
stored by AOL," said the statement from AOL.
AOL, the world's biggest Internet serv=
ice
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