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Former AOL employee pleads guilty in spam case







Former AOL employee pleads guilty in
spam case

Former AOL employee pleads guilty in
spam case
02/05/2005 10:10 PM

A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mails. Associated Press reports that the stolen list of 92 million AOL addresses included multiple addresses used by each of AOL's estimated 30 million customers. It is believed to be still circulating among spammers. Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, entered the guilty plea to conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan today. He is likely to face from 18 months to two years in prison following a May 20 sentencing. He also faces mandatory restitution of between $200,000 and $400,000, the amount the government estimates AOL spent as a result of the e-mails. Smathers, who was fired by AOL last June, used another employee's access code to steal the list of AOL customers in 2003 from its headquarters in Dulles, Va. He allegedly sold the list for $28,000 to Sean Dunaway, of Las Vegas, who used it to send unwanted gambling advertisements to subscribers of AOL, the world's largest Internet provider. Charges are pending against Dunaway.




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