Crime

130 arrested in Net Fraud crackdown

The feds put cuffs on 130 individuals in a e-con crackdown hopefully they will get convictions and send a message to these scam artist. [ZDNet]

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Spammers going to Slammer

It’s about time that the feds started arresting these idiots. Maybe prison bars will wake up others. [The Register]

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Police Raid coming to a campus near you!

Seems police are heading to a campus near you with search warrants in hand. They went looking for some servers, students thought it was a drug bust. I guess they are lucky they didn’t find any but they did load…

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Was your Passport account compromised!!!!

I knew it I just knew it. I had been very leary of the Microsoft passport service and had opted not to use it on all of the sites I need to access secure minus one which I had to…

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Job seekers are duped by con men

If you are looking for a job you better not get one shipping stuff for people without checking out there credentials real close. [MSNBC]

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RIAA extort money from College Students

RIAA has surprisingly settled out of court with the 4 students accused of file swapping. They have had to reportedly pay between 12,000 and 17,500 each. If this is any indication of the things to come the Recording Industry will…

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Virgina Anti-Spam Law

The law that has been cooked up by Virgina Legislatures has little success of being enforced. With most spammers coming in from off-shore I see no way that they will be able to enforce the law. [620KTAR]

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