AOL worker arrested in spam scheme
It is much more fun (and less prone to fines and jail time) to view the dark side as job security as opposed to a meal ticket…
If your e-mail address ends in @aol.com, how would you even notice the difference in the sheer volume of spam?
I did AOHell for about a year before I wised up and got Cable.
You won’t catch me defending AOL, but this could’ve happened (and will continue to happen) at any ISP.
Mr. Smathers apparently has himself a web site where some rather pissed off folks are writing him nice little love letters on his forum.
How creepily ironic the world would be if spammers actually gave a rat’s ass about how the people they were spamming felt about it.
I would like to disavow myself from any person referenced in the subject line.
Oooh, thanks for the link to his site. Quite the read there. My favorite is this post from someone at his work(or so they say).
I found his hit counter statistics fairly telling…
Too bad he hadn’t been really smart and sold some banner ads for his site.
You can read the 13-page indictment on The Smoking Gun.
Some poster on his site…
Bwhahaha!
I like this one:
Not any more. The site now points to kissmyass.com.
Lovely.
Now that the links are dead, do you recall the number? I didn’t get a chance to check it out.
It was something ridiculous like 3 hits a month for the past year, and then over 15000 hits on June 24 or 25th - whichever day the news hit the headlines.