Ex-AOL Worker Pleads Guilty in Spam Case
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A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer pleaded guilty Friday 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.
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A former New York computer help desk technician yesterday pleaded guilty to playing a key part in what prosecutors reckon is the largest identity theft case to date.
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A former vice president of Staples Inc. pleaded guilty yesterday to 14 counts, including money laundering and mail and wire fraud.
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A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty on Monday to sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
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Three people have pleaded guilty to charges related to spam e-mail that promised U.S. victims millions of dollars from an estate and a lottery, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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Two spammers have been convicted of three charges of sending thousands of junk e-mails through servers located in Virginia. Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison and Jessica DeGroot was fined $7,500 (Â£4,075).
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A former senior executive at Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. and two American International Group Inc. employees pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal charges in the state's probe of bid-rigging and price-fixing in the insurance industry.
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Snared A California fraudster who posed as a rep from AOL's billing department in order to trick users into handing over financial details was jailed for 70 months (five years and 10 months) on Monday, Information Week reports.â¦
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A former Senate computer technician pleaded guilty Wednesday to having child pornography on his office and government-issued laptop computers.
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A former top lawyer for website Monster pleads guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud regarding stock options.
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A former chief of staff to then-Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) pleaded guilty yesterday to corruption charges stemming from accepting gifts, gambling chips and trips -- including an expense-paid junket to Scotland with his boss -- from former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a foreign businessman.
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A 24-year-old computer network administrator pleaded guilty this week to charges of illegally accessing the computer network at the University of Southern California after he was denied admission to the school.
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A former Xerox customer service agent on Tuesday pleaded guilty to mail fraud for stealing and selling cartridges stolen from his former employer online.
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Across the Internet a muffled cheer rises to greet the news of a spammer sentenced to a nine-year prison term for sending junk mail to AOL customers in the Virginia-prosecuted case against
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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A 27-year-old businessman dubbed the "Spam King" pleaded not guilty to charges that he used a network of computers to send millions of unsolicited junk e-mails. Robert Alan Soloway entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
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A conman who sent millions of junk emails has been jailed for nine years in the first prosecution of its kind. Jeremy Jaynes, 30, was found guilty, along with his sister