AOL phisher jailed for 7 years

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Gordon Pryra

He put in a lot of work for very little gain #

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 13:26 GMT

I think there were 4 in the gang, so thats $25k a year each

hardly worth 4 months in jail let alone 7 years.....

If your going to do it, you may as well do it properly

Mike Flugennock

Hoorah! But, still, phishing at AOL... #

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 13:26 GMT

...is kinda' like -- well, shooting phish in a barrel, isn't it?

Tim

Anyone can do it. #

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 13:26 GMT

The reason is aol customers are so computer illiterate you could ask them just about anything and they would probably do it. Imagine, send us your computer and we'll update the aol software on it for only £30.

Paris 'cos she shares her IQ score with an average aol customer.

Anonymous Coward

"Trojan horse malware"? #

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 13:34 GMT

That's, what, a program file that claims to be a virus but when you run it it turns out to secretly do something actually useful like a spreadsheet or a word-processor, yeh?

Anonymous Coward

AOL REFUSED TO ASSIST #

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 21:44 GMT

The best thing is I heard that AOL was asked to help and they refused. Could have stopped a lot of this from happening.

I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

@"Trojan horse malware"? #

Posted Thursday 14th August 2008 21:44 GMT

OOKSMELL you mean?

Tony Paulazzo

A local phone call #

Posted Friday 15th August 2008 08:30 GMT

would probably have stopped most of them being deceived I was thinking, but if AOL truly refused to help catch these guys then they probably didn't give an fsck about their customers - sharing the wealth?

Simon B