California man arrested in AOL phishing scheme

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In an announcement, the Los Angeles office of the FBI said that Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, posed as an AOL billing representative and sent thousands of fake e-mails to AOL customers asking them to confirm their account passwords and personal billing information. The e-mails urged them to do so or lose service, and referred them to one of several fraudulent Internet Web sites where they could enter their information. Goodin allegedly controlled those Web sites, according to the FBI.

 

[yobarman]

LOL! What is the first guy caught doing this crime? I knew 14 year olds in 1995 that would put this guys scheme to shame

The FBI is at least 10 years behind on internet crime.

 

[EPCrew]

get 'em!

 

[iwearnosox]

Authorities said Goodin's online alias "Jokersmoker" allowed him to laundry the credit cards with impunity.

 

[purbeast0]

yah ... people on AOL are pretty dumb. when AOL was new i used to phish all the time to get other people's accounts. it was just something that you did as a kid on AOL at the time lol.

but i didn't setup websites. I would just go on the account and use some sort of IM bot to IM everyone in a lobby that their l/p was lost and to respond with it.

then when I got 1 phish and it was a master account, i'd make a new screen named like "AOL Emp13" to use to phish some more with lol.

good times.