AOL settling fraud claims
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Time Warner and its AOL subsidiary have reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that ends an investigation of the company over accounting and disclosure practices.
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Time Warner Inc has said that it has settled, for over $510 million, long-running investigations by the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission into improper accounting and abetting securities fraud at America Online in 2001.
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Time Warner Inc. yesterday agreed to pay &#36;510 million to settle criminal and civil charges stemming from an accounting scandal at its America Online division, moving to end a messy affair that tarnished its image and impeded its business after its merger with AOL in 2001.
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The settlement worth $31.5 million resolves accusations that the companies promoted illegal Internet gambling, the Justice Department said.
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(InfoWorld) - Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users, the U.S. 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. "Due to a central server meltdown, your credit card information was lost," one such e-mail read, according to the indictment. "In order to enjoy your AOL experience and keep your account active, you must enter your credit card information within 24 hours." Some of the fake greeting cards claimed to come from Web sites such as Hallmark.com or BlueMountain.com, the indictment states. AOL users appear to have been the primary targets of the fraud, but others may also have been targeted, according to Tom Carson, a spokesman for the United States Attorney's office for the District of Connecticut. "The investigation is ongoing," he said. "I think we can say the bulk of those targeted were AOL users, but we can't say with 100 percent certainty that they were the only victims," he said. The accused are believed to have defrauded thousands of individuals, U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said in a statement. "These are insidious crimes that wreak havoc on the lives of victims, and we will seek strict terms of imprisonment." The alleged scam was conducted over a two-year period, beginning in 2004, the U.S. Attorney said. Proceeds from the crime were used to purchase gaming consoles, laptop computers and gift cards, the indictment states. The men were actually indicted on fraud charges last week by a federal grand jury in New Haven, but the charges were not made public until Wednesday, when three of the men pleaded guilty. The three who have pleaded guilty face between two years and nine and a half years in prison, Carson said. They are Charlie Blount Jr., 22, of Branford, Connecticut, Richard D'Andrea, 22, of West Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas Taylor Jr., 20, also of West Haven. They are scheduled to be sentenced in mid-December. The three men awaiting arraignment are Michael Dolan, 22, of North Miami Beach, Florida, Keith Riedel, 20, of Winter Haven, Florida, and Daniel Mascia, 22, of West Haven. Dolan had previously been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to accessing a protected computer without authorization.
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Time Warner reached agreements with the Justice Department and the S.E.C. over irregularities at the America Online unit.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled a complaint with an online company it says was illegally selling telephone records.
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Time Warner agrees to pay $210m to settle charges of securities fraud involving America Online.
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DULLES, Va. - Short text advertisements touting AOL products and services are now being tacked to the bottom of e-mail messages sent from some AOL accounts.
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Time Warner agreed to pay $210m (Â£108m) yesterday to settle criminal fraud charges related to its internet service provider America Online.
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NEW YORK - American International Group Inc. said Wednesday that it has agreed to pay $126 million to settle federal allegations that the insurance giant helped two customer companies commit accounting fraud.
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Time Warner is expected to announce a settlement with the Justice Department in its investigation of advertising deals between America Online and smaller Internet companies that may
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WASHINGTON -- Time Warner Inc. Wednesday agreed to pay $510 million to settle criminal and civil charges stemming from an accounting scandal at its America Online division, moving to end a messy affair that
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America Online, the internet division of Time Warner, will be charged with criminal securities fraud but is likely to avoid prosecution under a settlement
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The state of Ohio said on Wednesday  that it had reached a $144 million settlement with Time Warner  Inc. on behalf of six state funds that claimed they were  defrauded after the media conglomerate merged with the online  service AOL.
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DENVER - Qwest communications agreed to settle a federal fraud investigation Friday, according to a union official. A company spokesman declined to comment.
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AOL is being accused of using malware-like tactics to install software unbeknownst to users when they install AOL 9.0, the company's latest version of its online service software. The charge was made by industry coalition StopBadware.org.