A California man faces 101 years in prison for running an AOL phishing scam. A 45 year old California man faces 101 years in prison for orchestrating a phishing scam against America Online users, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, was found guilty by a jury on Jan. 12 of operating the Internet-based scheme to obtain personal and credit card information. He was the first person convicted by a jury in a CAN-SPAM case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.According to the statement, by Assistant United States Attorney Wesley L. Hsu, Goodin used “Earthlink accounts to send e-mails to AOL users. Those e-mails appeared to be from AOL’s billing department and urged the users to ‘update’ their AOL billing information or lose service.” You know the rest: the Web pages were actually scam pages set up to harvest the users info, yada yada yada. But there’s more: Goodin was convicted of 10 other counts, including wire fraud, aiding and abetting the unauthorized use of an access device (credit card), possession of more than 15 unauthorized access devices, misuse of the AOL trademark, attempted witness harassment and failure to appear in court.He’s due to be sentenced on June 11 and faces a maximum of 101 years, though my guess he’ll get much less than that — even with the court no-show. Security