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Fake PayPal, AOL spam operations stopped by FTC, DOJ

by Donna Buenaventura Mar 23, 2004 8:47AM PST

The spammer illegally obtained credit card and account information from hundreds of users.

A spam e-mail operation that sent out e-mails falsely claiming to be from PayPal or America Online Inc., tricking hundreds of consumers into entering their credit card, banking and user account information on fake PayPal and AOL Web sites, has been stopped by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

In a joint announcement yesterday, the two agencies said that Zachary Keith Hill of Houston has been ordered to halt the identity theft operation, which was the type of scam also known as phishing, while he awaits sentencing on federal criminal charges.

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/cybercrime/story/0,10801,91562,00.html

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