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lame AOL users
Author:  Tony [ Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:05 pm ]
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as Dan Clements, founder of CardCops (online banking security or something... not sure) nicely puts
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AOL users are the newbies, so they're way more susceptible to these scams.


Apparently some woman from Ohio was mass mailing spam to AOL users saying that "last attempt to bill the recipient's credit card had failed", and included a link to an "AOL Billing Center" webpage, where an online form demanded the user's name, address, credit card number, expiration date, three-digit CCV number and credit card limit.

Well the fact that such Billing Center is not on aol.com domain should strike a bell. And the fact they they ask for your CC limit should just make you wonder how much they planning on charging Wink But apparently lots of people fell for the scam (heh, they use AOL, eh?)

Anyways, it all ended when she mailed an FBI agent specializing in computer fraud.

Heh, my broadband costs as much as AOL dialup, and I can also check my email and chat to friends 8) @ 100x the speed Laughing

source
Author:  Tony [ Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:12 pm ]
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btw - No More AOL CDs . com is still collecting. Over the 2.5 years since they started, they collected 230,000 AOL CDs. Looks like they just might hit their 1 million goal by the year 2010 Laughing
Author:  Dan [ Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:11 pm ]
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tony wrote:
Anyways, it all ended when she mailed an FBI agent specializing in computer fraud.



LOL, whont that mean the "FBI agent specializing in computer fraud" used AOL. no whonder why they have some many problms with hacking and computer crimes. Razz
Author:  poly [ Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:26 pm ]
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Over the 2.5 years since they started, they collected 230,000 AOL CDs
Do I smell a world record of some sort....
So basically you're saying I could scam these AOLers and would only risk of getting caught? hmmm interesting
Author:  Tony [ Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:35 pm ]
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heh, she didnt even get convinced, the court found her "not guilty". I suppose they realized its AOL user's own fault Laughing

So yeah... feel free to scam AOL Twisted Evil Company sucks anyways, a bunch of CEOs quit a while ago, said they couldn't take that crap any longer or something along those lines. You know... Rolling Eyes
Author:  Martin [ Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:38 pm ]
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My friend Ian's collecting them and making a curtain out of all of them. I think he's at somewhere around 200 (I could be wrong, but I'm sure he has at least 100)
Author:  Martin [ Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:44 pm ]
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It's kind of funny when you think about it...AOL's site lags really badly.

Plus their site is ass. And they have advertising on it.

Just to show what kind of people they're aiming at...they have two offers on their site for AOL 8.0...one for 1045 'free' hours, another for unlimited 'free' hours. And there's no 'Why go AOL' link... funny that.
Author:  krishon [ Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:19 pm ]
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its called horrible marketing...and since ur the marketin mod u can point those things out Wink
Author:  Kingnoz [ Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:24 pm ]
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My friend Ian's collecting them and making a curtain out of all of them. I think he's at somewhere around 200 (I could be wrong, but I'm sure he has at least 100)


hey u live in waterloo u can tell ur friend to stop by my work...we have like 60-100 of them that noone wants cuz aol sucks...it is like worse than a 56k modem(the free cd stuff anyway)
Author:  Corybu [ Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:34 pm ]
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I was on aol for like... 8 years up untill like last month.

I was in no means a newb, or a moron or anything like that.

My parents simply would not spring for boradband, I finally got them to get it, cause I thought "Ill stay online all the time, and tie up the phone line" it worked.

Were on sympatico, and I download at 200+k/s most of the time.

Its better than sex.
Author:  Tony [ Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:44 pm ]
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hey Corybu, didnt mean to offend you or anything. Its just that AOL users are assosiated with newbs because generally old and very young people fall for those "all my friends are on AOL, why dont I join so I can send them emails" commercials.

also the fact that they got a shitty mandetory browser and a price as high as my DSL Laughing
Author:  Amailer [ Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:50 pm ]
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-.- im young -.-
I don't go for AOL Very Happy Very Happy
Author:  Tony [ Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:59 pm ]
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yeah, but you're unbelivably smart for your age... You gonna go a long way if you keep this up.
Author:  Amailer [ Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:01 pm ]
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ah...was waiting for that Very Happy jk thanks
Author:  Martin [ Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:09 pm ]
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Yeah, everytime we go to Radio Shack or whatever we take the whole pile of AOL cds.

I hate AOL, and I hope that the company gets trampled by a rabid hoard of n00bs.
Author:  Kingnoz [ Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:57 pm ]
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i remember delivering the aol cds for "the Record" (my local newspaper)...and i would always keep like 50 or so and use them for frisbees and for putting drinks on

the best was when they used diskettes cuz it would eliminate the need to buy blank diskettes...insert disk....format a:....wow!!! a blank diskette Shocked
Author:  Tony [ Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:36 pm ]
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yeah, diskets were somewhat acceptable. Though now you cant get them. Even if you call them and ask for one, they wouldn't send it to you. I remember reading about some guy who called in and said that he wants to subscribe to AOL, but his computer is old and doesnt have a CD drive. Asked if they could send in a floppy for him to install and they said "no". Laughing
Author:  octopi [ Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:42 pm ]
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Only purpose I ever found for aol cd's were throwing at people/objects.....sometimes they shatter into many small peices....it can be quite fun Razz....except when all that shinny stuff gets everywhere, and you have to clean it up.
Author:  krishon [ Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:43 pm ]
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lol, i just crack'em in half
Author:  Martin [ Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:53 pm ]
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The ultimate suicide.

Split an AOL cd in half and slash your wrists with it. The headline:
AOL one ups GTA in the suicide category.
Author:  Mazer [ Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:05 pm ]
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Darkness wrote:
The ultimate suicide.

Split an AOL cd in half and slash your wrists with it. The headline:
AOL one ups GTA in the suicide category.


inflicting wounds with... plastic. you're always thinking darkness! Laughing
Author:  Martin [ Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:13 pm ]
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Hey, I've cut myself with a broken cd before, I'm sure it could be done.
Author:  krishon [ Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:59 pm ]
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u cut urself with a cd...........wow......that's all i can say, lol.....wow
Author:  Martin [ Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:37 am ]
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Broken CD shards are sharp.
Author:  AsianSensation [ Sat Sep 27, 2003 5:21 pm ]
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or you could save the AOL Cds and send them to a third world country, Im sure the kids there are in desperate of toys and accesories.

just imagine, for each AOL Cd you send over, you will be making a kid in Congo very happy.

I guess there are uses for AOL Cds afterall.
Author:  krishon [ Sat Sep 27, 2003 6:26 pm ]
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oh broken...i thought he meant he cut himself with a normal cd that's not broken Confused
Author:  Corybu [ Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:28 pm ]
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Aol wouldnt be so bad if you could close the main window, and still surf using IE or something. Aol freezes at almost everything when you use it to surf, and it limits download speed to like 3k/s cause it has to refresh the damned welcome screen all the time.

If you could use just IE and have a sign on similar to Sympatico, you could probably get 6-10k. Which is great for just e-mails and messenger programs.

I tried to play Unreal Tournament online on AOL... it sucked, because everyone has like 20 or less ping, and im up at like 200 or more, I was getting wasted, and now im down with the 20 somethings, and its awesome.

I think that aol had the potential to be a good internet program, if they could keep up. Spend liss time advertising, and more time and money to make a good product (Like Sympatico, or Cable) and they could be good.

I want to get T1 running to my house... Or SONET... Mmmmmmm hehe.

If you dont know what SONET is, it is (as far as I know) the current fastest network connection available right now, if you could get that on a pc, and connect it to the internet you could potentially download (1 terabyte/s I think... Its been a while since Ive checked. I saw it during a class in my CCNA course...)

Its nice though, lol.

oh well, im rambling lol.

Ill stop.

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