Teens Accused of Duping AOL Users

2000-06-30 04:38

http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/06/29/aolscam0629_01.html June 29, 2000 By James Gordon Meek WICHITA, Kan. (APBnews.com) -- Teenagers have struck again from cyberspace, this time allegedly tricking some America Online users into giving up their credit card numbers, authorities said today. Two Wichita 15-year-olds were arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a scam that caused at least a dozen AOL users in six or more states to fork over sensitive personal information after they received an e-mail apparently from the online service. The e-mail, purported to be from "Steve Case" of the "AOL Billing Team," asked the victims to go to a Web site and update their user information. The requested information included providing a credit card number "that has not been used for any AOL services," the message read. [...] *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".

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