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This is a couple weeks old, but somehow I missed it...
Didn't see anything in a quick seach, so here it is.
Bloomerg.com story
A related story says he faces a max of 101 years, with sentencing scheduled for June.
Didn't see anything in a quick seach, so here it is.
Bloomerg.com story
California Man Guilty of Defrauding AOL Subscribers, U.S. Says
By Edvard Pettersson
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A California man who defrauded users of Time Warner Inc.'s America Online unit by sending e-mails requesting credit data became the first defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring Internet ``spam.''
Jeffrey Goodin, 45, of Azusa, California, was convicted under the 2003 Can-Spam Act, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said today in a statement. The statute prohibits sending unsolicited e-mail messages with falsified header, or return address, information.
Goodin operated a so-called phishing scheme that duped AOL subscribers into providing personal and credit information in the belief they were dealing with the company's billing department, prosecutors said. Goodin used the credit card information to make unauthorized purchases. The total financial damages were about $1 million, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rozella Oliver said.
Goodin is scheduled to be sentenced June 11 in Los Angeles federal court. He faces as many as 101 years in prison, prosecutors said in the statement. His lawyer, Gerald Salseda, and AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein, didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.
Shares of New York-based Time Warner, the world's largest media company, rose 8 cents to $22.81 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
The case United States v. Goodin, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 06-110.
By Edvard Pettersson
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A California man who defrauded users of Time Warner Inc.'s America Online unit by sending e-mails requesting credit data became the first defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring Internet ``spam.''
Jeffrey Goodin, 45, of Azusa, California, was convicted under the 2003 Can-Spam Act, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said today in a statement. The statute prohibits sending unsolicited e-mail messages with falsified header, or return address, information.
Goodin operated a so-called phishing scheme that duped AOL subscribers into providing personal and credit information in the belief they were dealing with the company's billing department, prosecutors said. Goodin used the credit card information to make unauthorized purchases. The total financial damages were about $1 million, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rozella Oliver said.
Goodin is scheduled to be sentenced June 11 in Los Angeles federal court. He faces as many as 101 years in prison, prosecutors said in the statement. His lawyer, Gerald Salseda, and AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein, didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.
Shares of New York-based Time Warner, the world's largest media company, rose 8 cents to $22.81 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
The case United States v. Goodin, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 06-110.
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