Jason Smathers is a former employee of America Online. In February 2005, Smathers pled guilty to violations of the US CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Smathers was accused and convicted of illegally selling approximately 92 million AOL member screen names, belonging to 30 million AOL customers, to a third party, who then sold the list to many spammers. Smathers made $28,000 on the initial sale. The third party, Sean Dunaway, then sold the list for $52,000 to each spammer. Wikipedia
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