Yeah it was all fun and games until someone pulls an AOL staff account on ya, looks up your address and proto-swats your home address

It is all fun and games until you think about not only the victims but the possible harm done. Even a loss of a small amount of money can be life changing.

Swatting is just something the morally impaired can relate to better.

Of course, though I got swatted for defacing another group's page and not stealing credit cards.

And honestly I never even used my card stash anyway and I had thousands and thousands-- not because I'm a good person or whatever but because I was paranoid after that. The rush of building a duplicate of LOVE@AOL and then trawling my way through chatrooms and building my email list "Someone liked you, sign into your premium love@AOL account to see who" was too exhilirating to give up for 13-year-old me even if I was essentially tag-and-release phishing.

I remember using spizzam2k and spamming out millions of InstaKiss phishing emails.

We used to phish OH accounts and <M>< master accounts to get free internet or scroll from the OH accounts.

AOL was so awesome and where I met friends I still keep in contact with today. Also taught me how to program.