AOL Worker Sells 92 Million Names

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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...
Smathers, working at AOL offices in Dulles, Virginia, 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...
Lawyers for the men were not immediately available to comment, but prosecutors in New York said both were to appear in federal courts near their homes Wednesday -- Smathers in Virginia and Dunaway in Las Vegas. Each man could face up to five years in prison and at least $250,000 in fines if convicted...

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Who can you trust today?

LOL, two things are humorous about this clown. The first is that he lives in my town. The second is the amount of nasty grams that people are leaving in his forum.

http://www.thesmathers.com

:)

I recommend reading the post that his co-workers added. It is quite entertaining.

On a serious note, the damage these clowns have done cannot be undone. The list is already out there and probably has been resold a number of times already. The true proof that this dunce is not a good criminal is the amount of money he sold the list for. Working for the largest ISP on the planet, one would think he would have a better sense for the sleezy SPAM market. That list should have easily fetched seven figures.

Seven figures!? I'm working in the wrong busines.... :D

What a sleezebag. Those type of people make me want to hurl...

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Originally posted here by thehorse13
[B]LOL, two things are humorous about this clown. The first is that he lives in my town. The second is the amount of nasty grams that people are leaving in his forum.

http://www.thesmathers.com

I recommend reading the post that his co-workers added. It is quite entertaining.[b]

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Someone called "Your Mom" has left this on his board:

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You've disgraced the whole family and ruined Thanksgiving. Your father wants to cancel Christmas too.

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hehehe

I wonder if my screen name was sold ?

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I wonder if my screen name was sold ?

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doubt it Memory, I mean Mamory, I mean Nemory,

In fact chances are they got one of your names.

AOL the system resorce eater at it again


BTW their spam filters suck


i get more spam in my email then i do in my spam mail box

Good thing I don't have AOL. Nive avtar cdkj.

-Cheers-

I didnt get spam in about a year, thats cuz i dont give out my AOL e-mail to any website.

PM8228

Thanks :D



NemorY

i don't use my AOL email never did never will i just use aol to connect

I use my AOL e-mail because i can access it right away ! But for messaging and internet i use AIM and Mozilla or whatever i feel like ! I am a deep hater of AOHELL :)

When i signed on now, they asked me to create a security question, dunno if the "sold 92 million account" case has something to do with it .!

Make sure it's something really secure, like "What country are you from?"
;)

Wow, this guy's forums are up in flames currently. You should read some of this stuff, hehe...

This article seems to carry the most threat, IMHO:

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You know who this is. Think about it a minute, you'll know.

Thanks a lot. Thanks for ****ing us all over while the whole time you're smiling in the office and playing the nice guy. Thanks for heaping one more heaping spoonful of **** on the pile we've been trying to dig ourselves out from under.

I can't believe you did this to the people you worked beside day in and day out. People who WORK THEIR ASSES OFF trying to make our lives and our product better. How many times did I help you when you were stuck with a script or some other task? Huh? How many times did I stop work in the middle of the day and sit down with you to sift through a pile of data to figure out a problem?

Damn, you and your wife even came to my Christmas party.

You betrayed us all. When you get free, don't come home...because I've got a long ****ing memory and I'll make your cellmate Rufus look like a pussycat.

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This guy sounds like he's got a serious issue at hand, hehe. Reminds me of when Susan Smith in Union, SC killed her two kids by putting them in the station wagon, rolling it into a lake where they drowned, and then tried to blame it on a black man saying he stole it. Union SC WANTED her to be set free...they WANTED to know when that bus would drop her back off at home...because before the bus even got around the bend, she'd have been torn apart. Machiavelli, anyone?

Hmm...

This is interesting in another light besides the fact that he sold the lists.

The guy was fired before he was proven guilty. AOL can be sued for that, by him. It violates his rights. Until he is convicted he can't be punished in anyway for this.

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Sure the guy probably did it, but damn.

You know who I feel sad for? The guy that works at AOL that will get fired for this that has nothing to do with it. The guy that is really low on the Totum pole. That AOL is going to "LAYOFF" because they need to save money, because of all the law suits they are going to get for this one.

I think he was fired just because of his actions. He didn't have access to that list, and used someone else's ID to gain access. I think they just said he was fired as charges were filed to put things into time perspective.

Wow, his website is suddenly extremely popular today.

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Daily Stats for June, 2004
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22 0.029% (4)
23 0.782% (105)
24 97.15% (13032)
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On another note, IIRC, PHPNuke requires copyright messages in the footer. Unless of course he purchased a license to remove that stuff...



BTW, this news was acturally reported yesterday. I sorta glossed over it, but here is the link from an article yesterday...

http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/23/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

NemorY, you tool... :D

http://www.thesmathers.com/modules.p...viewtopic&t=13

hmm...

Am I the only person that noticed his site's clock and date are off.

I just noticed it, a little ago.

I wonder if someone took a hit at his site.

Anyone know if he hosts it?

That wasn't me :rolleyes: :)

Leave it to NemorY.....

Look at the 14year boy that got imformation on 32million people who use AOL just by calling on the phone

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When i signed on now, they asked me to create a security question

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Make sure it's something really secure, like "What country are you from?"

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Or "what is your gender?" :rofl:

They did ask for the gender, but they have only male or female option.

What?? They didn't have a "both" option?

I guess they forgot that NemorY was a luser. err... user :p

I gotta send em an emial and suggest that to be included in the next version....or at least Unknown, which would fit me more perfectly :)

this guy is screwed worse then the guy who caught the ball at the cubs game during the playoffs

After reading about to whole "AOL thing" it makes you wonder if paying 23 something a month is really worth it, i mean if aol can't trust who works for them then who can they trust. It's really sad you cant sign online now a days without worrying if your account will get cracked, if someone will get your billing information, or if you are going to get spammed to death.

Thats why we're here. To stop those things as much as possible !

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it makes you wonder if paying 23 something a month is really worth it

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NO it isn't... Broadband is so common these days that dialup prices are going way down. It's a common thing for an ISP to charge 10 bucks a month now. Like NetZero, which is what we have.

Plus, I've heard that AOL prevents users from using telnet.. among other things.. So you're paying MORE for LESS functionality.

here here nemory

I just had to post a couple of these responses from thesmathers.com. I was laughing hysterically at some of these.

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I heard that you have a list of 92 million AOL screennames. I sell p3n1s enlargement systems and think this would be a great segment to try to penetrate. Any chance I can get your list?

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we're not all this scummy, i swear!
- a wv IT person..

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HAHAHAHA, hope ya like it in the pooper!

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i believe that spam is at a point where only violence will turn the tide...i say we start w/ this douchebag

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we can let anyone who's ever been spammed piss on his bed

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**My apologies for not posting anything even remotely helpful or productive :D

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Plus, I've heard that AOL prevents users from using telnet..

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Ummmm... NO it doesn't !

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Originally posted here by Laughing Gas
After reading about to whole "AOL thing" it makes you wonder if paying 23 something a month is really worth it, i mean if aol can't trust who works for them then who can they trust. It's really sad you cant sign online now a days without worrying if your account will get cracked, if someone will get your billing information, or if you are going to get spammed to death.

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No way is it worth it. I do tech support for a local ISP. Not only are we $15 a month (more than Netzero, true, but from what I've seen of Netzero, it's crap, and our accelerated dial-up (free to all users) works better and requires no user-side software) but we don't outsource our techs. And plus we actually have enough techs to get the job done, no long waiting periods like AOL & Earthlink, and from what I've heard of AOL's techs you'd be better off not using them. :D Stay away from AOL, man, unless you absolutely can't!!