lame AOL users

Tony · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:05 pm

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

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Tony · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:12 pm

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

Dan · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:11 pm

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

poly · **Posted:** 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

Tony · **Posted:** Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:35 pm

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

Martin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:38 pm

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)

Martin · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:44 pm

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.

krishon · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2003 9:19 pm

its called horrible marketing...and since ur the marketin mod u can point those things out Wink

Kingnoz · **Posted:** 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)

Corybu · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:34 pm

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.

Tony · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:44 pm

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

Amailer · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:50 pm

-.- im young -.-
I don't go for AOL Very Happy

Tony · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:59 pm

yeah, but you're unbelivably smart for your age... You gonna go a long way if you keep this up.

Amailer · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:01 pm

ah...was waiting for that Very Happy

jk thanks

Martin · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:09 pm

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.

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