AOL Sues Three Groups Over Phishing

By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Here’s one of those news articles you’d like to see more often, the more we get these big companies involved in spam, phishing and the like, the better off we will all be.

America Online is taking advantage of a first-of-its-kind anti-”phishing” law in Virginia to sue three international groups that allegedly stole information from unsuspecting AOL users by sending e-mail that appeared to be legitimate messages from the company.

AOL’s three lawsuits, filed Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., seek $18 million for the unit of Time Warner Inc.

The suits allege that the 30 phishers, who have not yet been identified by name, violated the 2005 Virginia anti-phishing act, which covers AOL because it is based in Dulles, Va. The suits also cite federal computer fraud law and the Lanham Act, which protects trademarks.

The phishers cited in the suits are accused of sending tens of thousands of e-mails and setting up Web sites that purportedly were from AOL customer service. Source: Yahoo.com.

We Say: So, all you AOL people, keep forwarding this stuff to AOL so they can keep suing these losers. I’ve trained my mom to do it on eBay, now that she’s been taken advantage of TWICE, so make sure your forward all of those emails asking for login info, etc, as, most likely they are not from AOL themselves.