Six charged in breakup of AOL identity theft ring

["ziplock" <ziplock () pogowasright org>]

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Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that
targeted AOL users, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.

The men are accused of harvesting thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and
then infecting victims' PCs with malicious software that would prevent
them from logging on to AOL without entering their credit card numbers,
bank account numbers and other personal information.

Under the scam, victims would receive fake e-mail greeting cards that
would silently infect their computers with the log-on software, according
to a grand jury indictment. Victims were also spammed with phoney e-mail
messages that claimed to have come from AOL's billing department.

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