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Feds Nab Teen Who Scammed AOL

Feds Nab Teen Who Scammed AOL: “U.S. regulators said on Monday they had charged a 17-year-old boy with using “spam” e-mails and a fake AOL Web page to trick people out of their credit-card information and steal thousands of dollars. Officials at the Federal Trade Commission said they had agreed to settle their case against the teenager, who was not identified because of his age, after he agreed to pay back $3,500 he had stolen, and to submit to a lifetime ban on sending spam.” From Wired. Good to know the scam. But the penalties seem light (he stole at least $8,000) and how do you police a lifetime ban?

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