AOL SPAM Facailitator Pleads Guilty
What was he thinking? Jason Smathers 24-year-old former AOL software engineer took 92 million AOL screen names and sold them to spammers. Did he think they wouldn’t notice the flood of additional SPAM and the exact group of screen names included in that SPAM? I don’t actually know how they caught him, but he only got $28,000 for the list of names and now has to spend time behind bars and pay AOL restitution far in excess of the salary he received in total during his employment plus the $28K.