AOL sues alleged phishing rings | CNET News.com
America Online has filed lawsuits against three alleged identity-theft gangs, using a new antiphishing law to seek combined damages of $18 million.

The online division of Time Warner said Tuesday it had filed three civil suits in Alexandria’s U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, charging the three groups with tricking AOL members with fake Web sites of legitimate companies to fool them into giving up personal information.

The suits were filed under Virginia’s new antiphishing statute, a federal trademark law called the Lanham Act, and a federal antispam law called the Federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.