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A 23 year-old faces up to seven years imprisonment after pleading guilty to targeting AOL members via an elaborate and long running phishing scam. Michael Dolan, formerly of West Haven, Connecticut and North Miami Beach, Florida, admitted stealing names, credit card details and social security numbers from AOL members. He …

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  1. Alan Donaly

    what a waste

    What energy and planning ability these people went the whole way even making fake atm cards twentythree and he's doing this whats he going to be up to when gets out If he doesn't go legit were in trouble pretending to watch him doesn't help either.

  2. ed koin

    AOL HAX

    FREE DOLAN

  3. Pacman

    FREE DOLAN

    Hang in there mike. <3

    -Paul-

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    FREE DOLAN!

    If you'd like to express your support for Mike Dolan, please send your credit card number, CVV, bank a/c sort code and number, PINs, DOB, SSN and mother's maiden name to

    irma.scamma@hotmail.com

    Looking forward to hearing from Pacman and Ed!

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Do you remember

    The Isaac Asaimov story where a computer fraudster was given a sentence consisting of pyschological treatment which meant he could never look at a computer screen again? Shame its not possible...

  6. Jon Thompson

    Dolan

    TBH, he couldn't have done it without your typical AOL-user being a complete and utter muppet.

    No matter how many times ISPs, security sites, AV vendors etc say "Don't open random attachments", Mr & Mrs AOL Fuckwit will always click open that file "Greetings.jpg.scr" file that came in their AOL Mail, because they think they know what they're doing.

    What with this and the article about unsecured WiFi, or WEP encrypted (hah!) networks, it's just staggering the amount of people that use the internet that really don't have the first idea about even the most basic security principles.

  7. Joe Blogs

    @Alan Donaly

    ....,,,,!!!!????

    Some space punctuation for you as you seem to have run out.

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