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| DATE | 2004-06-06 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] How NOT to lodge a compalint
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DISGRUNTLED PHILLIES FAN CHARGED WITH HACKING INTO COMPUTERS TRIGGERING
SPAM E-MAIL ATTACKS
Victims Include Reporters At Philadelphia Inquirer And Daily News
October 7, 2003 - PHILADELPHIA ? United States Attorney Patrick L.
Meehan today announced the unsealing of an indictment returned on
September 25, 2003, against ALLAN ERIC CARLSON. Agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation arrested Carlson this morning at his residence.
Carlson is charged with "hacking" into computers around the country,
hijacking or "spoofing" the return addresses of e-mail accounts of
reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News
and e-mail accounts at the Philadelphia Phillies, and launching spam
e-mail attacks. He is also charged with identity theft for illegally
using the e-mail addresses of the reporters.
The indictment charges that Carlson, a disgruntled Philadelphia Phillies
fan, hacked into computers of unsuspecting users and from those
computers launched spam e-mail attacks with long messages voicing his
complaints about the Phillies management. The indictment charges that
when launching the spam e-mails, Carlson's list of addressees included
numerous bad addresses. When those e-mails arrived at their
destinations, the indictment charges that they were "returned" or
"bounced" back to the person who purportedly sent them ? the persons
whose e-mail addresses had been "spoofed" or hijacked. This caused
floods of thousands of e-mails into these accounts in a very short
period of time.
"Fans have the right to voice their displeasure but these were
electronic attacks with serious consequences," said Meehan, who created
a separate Computer Crime section in his office in 2001. "By flooding
the victim computer systems with spam e-mails, those systems and the
businesses they support were severely affected. You can boo, you can
turn off the TV, but you can't hijack the e-mail address of an
unsuspecting user and call it passion." Meehan also noted that this is
the first use of an identity theft statute against an e-mail spammer.
If convicted, Carlson faces a maximum possible sentence of 471 years
imprisonment, $117,250,000 in fines and a special assessment of $7,800.
DEFENDANT
ADDRESS
AGE [Date of Birth]
ALLAN ERIC CARLSON
1232 East Lexington Drive Apartment A
Glendale, California 91206
DOB: 12/28/1963
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It has
been assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Michael L. Levy,
Chief, Computer Crimes.
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
EASTERN DISTRICT, PENNSYLVANIA
Suite 1250, 615 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 Contact:
RICH MANIERI
Media Contact
215.861.8525
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