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Originally Posted by twinkiedooter  Judy - This is one of the reasons I dumped AOL years ago. I used to have a severe problem with them when trying to access my email or even get online. I would call them up and ask what was going on and they would happily tell me that I had been supposedly sending naughty emails to people AND have a very naughty web page and that they had to freeze my account. The only problem with this is I didn't know enough people to even want to send emails to naughty or clean and I hadn't the faintest clue how to set up a web site AND that I was asleep in my bed for hours before and after I was supposedly doing this activity on line. They would pull this cute little gig on me at least once a week!!!!
I dumped them as soon as I could. I've also read other horror stories about them and don't really recommend that particular service unless there is virtually no one else to go with.
This is just my opinion of them........ from personal experience. |
I have to say here that this was not totally AOL's fault. This did happen to a lot of members, but what was actually happening was this:
Because AOL had, by far, the largest number of members with a lot of them inexperienced with the Internet, it was also the biggest target of phishers. AOL members were bombarded with attempts to gain access to their accounts. Phishing scams of various types from trojan downloads to tricks to obtain info abounded. And AOL members, due to their inexperience fell for them in droves.
So, I suspect that's what happened with you. You probably downloaded a keylogger or other trojan. The phishers were gaining access to your account and using it for naughty purposes. And you were getting blamed. Yes AOL needed to educate and protect its members better. But its members needed to learn to protect their accounts as well.
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