An Ohio woman accused in federal court of using mass forged e-mails from “AOL security” to swindle America Online subscribers out of their credit card numbers was allegedly tracked down after spamming exactly the wrong person: an FBI agent specializing in computer fraud, according to court records. Helen Carr pleaded not-guilty last week to a two count federal indictment charging her with conspiring with colleagues in the spam community to send mass e-mails to AOL subscribers purporting to be from “Steve Baldger” from AOL’s security department. The messages claimed that AOL’s last attempt to bill the recipient’s credit card had failed, and included a link to an “AOL Billing Center” webpage, where an online form demanded the user’s name, address, credit card number, expiration date, three-digit CCV number and credit card limit. Full Story
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