Man Convicted for AOL E-card Scam
A Connecticut man was sentenced for duping AOL subscribers with fake e-card email that led to phishing sites. Thomas Taylor Jr. and his co-conspirator Michael Dolan took the information they scammed, which included credit card and bank account numbers, and made fake ATM cards to withdraw cash.
A Connecticut man was sentenced for duping AOL subscribers with fake e-card email that led to phishing sites. Thomas Taylor Jr. and his co-conspirator Michael Dolan took the information they scammed, which included credit card and bank account numbers, and made fake ATM cards to withdraw cash.
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut has ordered Taylor to pay US$33,714 to the victims of his scheme. He also must spend the first seven months of his probation inhome confinement and perform 200 hours of community service during his probation time.
