Jeffery Brett Goodin is being made an example of; and quite an example at that. He has been convicted on 11 different counts, and faces up to 101 years in a federal prison, for phishing.  

The California jury found Goodin guilty of the infringement of the Can-Spam Act of 2003, controlling the Assault of non-solicited pornography and marketing. A full text of the act can be found at http://www.legalarchiver.org/cs.htm.

Goodin had been running his phishing operation where he acted as a member of the AOL billing dept; he then led users to issue him their credit card information through a combination of fake web sites that looked like official AOL pages to justify his credibility.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office claims he would make purchases online with the stolen card numbers, would would not release information regarding how much he charged up on others’ accounts.

Goodin was arrested last year after being investigated for some time by the Ontario Police Department and the Electronic Crimes Task Force which includes agents from the FBI and Secret Service.

Among infringing on the Can-Spam Act, Goodin was also convicted of 10 other counts, including misuse of AOL’s trademark, witness harassment, failure to appear in court, wire fraud, and aiding and abetting the unauthorized use of credit cards; he faces 101 years in the spammer if given the maximum sentence on June 11.

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Entry was posted on Thursday, January 18th, 2007 at 4:36 pm under Legal, Security.

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