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America Online today announced it has filed lawsuits against three overseas “gangs” alleged to be behind online identity theft (or “phishing”) scams. The suits are the first to be filed under an anti-phishing statue Virginia enacted in July, 2005; AOL is seeking total damages of $18 million. The three suits charge the gangs with tricking AOL members using fake Web sites which look like the sites of legitimate… Read More

The frist ever felony indictment under Virginia's tough anti-spam law was announced today at AOL corporate headquarters. The accused spammer, listed as one of the top 10 offenders in the world by http://www.spamhaus.org/, was identified with the help of AOL users who utilized the “Report Spam” button in their email application. “We applaud Attorney General Kilgore's swift action to vigorously enforce… Read More