How Premier Services Steals AOL Usernames and Passwords
I'm going to go in to great detail
on this. In a nutshell Premier Services creates a fake AOL look-a-like
web page, and then spams it to AOL email addresses. The spam claims AOL
lost it's customer information and needs the user to re-input his username
and password. It offers the user a free month of Internet access for correctly
entering in his infornmation in to the provided HTML link. The information
is then emailed off to some web based account that eventually forwards
in to the the waiting hands of Premier Services. Stolen AOL accounts and
copies of the web page were found on the hard drives of Rodona
Garst, Shary Valentine, and Lin
Valentine. You can download the actual HTML source created and used
by Premier Services by clicking here. The
HTML source is archived in tar and gunzip format. To download it you may
need to right click on the link and then left click on "Save as".
In all I recovered over 1300 AOL usernames and passwords. I
turned them over to AOL security along with Premier Services contact information.
Premier Services refers to the act of stealing AOL usernames and passwords
as "fishing". It is referred to several times in the ICQ
chat logs between Shary Valentine (Aspen) and Shannon Redmond. Fishing
is also referenced in the chat logs with the symbol "<><".
-Man In The Wilderness