Want to be looked after the rest of your life in the company of big Otis, who likes to take showers? Then do what Jeffrey Brett Goodin did and become a criminal phisherman - now taken down by the US Department of Justice.

The US Department of Justice has reported that in verdicts reached late Friday, Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, was found guilty of operating a sophisticated phishing scheme targeted at AOL users. He was convicted under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 of sending thousands of emails to AOL users that appeared to be from AOL's billing department and prompted the customers to send personal and credit card information, which he used to make unauthorized purchases.

According to the US DOJ’s press release, the jury found that Goodin operated an Internet-based scheme designed to obtain personal and credit card information by tricking people into believing that they were providing information to a legitimate business.

Its nice to see CAN-SPAM being used to go after Phishers. I'm just amused as hell that phishing AOL users is still so profitable. I gave a presentation on this stuff once, and AOL has been fertile ground for over a decade now.

I have many fond memories of phishing logins/passwords from first time AOL members in the "New User Lobby" back in mid 90s.