{"id":294,"date":"2004-06-23T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T20:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanoliver.net\/wordpress\/?p=3"},"modified":"2012-08-16T04:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:51:12","slug":"its-about-time-the-first-canned-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/its-about-time-the-first-canned-spammer\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s about time&#8211;The first &#8216;Canned Spammer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20040623\/us_nm\/tech_aol_spam_dc_6\">Yahoo! News &#8211; US Charges AOL Worker Sold Customer List for Spam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s why AOL had so  much spam, eh?<\/p>\n<p>The feds think this guy sold 92 million (92,000,000) subscriber&#8217;s names and e-mail addresses to spammers, for $52,000.  Until today, I  had just assumed the  spammers had to work to build their  lists, not just buy them.   I hope they give this guy the maximum penalty (5yrs\/$250k).  And I wonder how many other people have been doing similar schemes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News &#8211; US Charges AOL Worker Sold Customer List for Spam So that&#8217;s why AOL had so much spam, eh? The feds think this guy sold 92 million (92,000,000) subscriber&#8217;s names and e-mail addresses to spammers, for $52,000. Until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/its-about-time-the-first-canned-spammer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanoliver.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}