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Police Target Free Email

Red Wolf writes "The Australian Federal Police are talking with the major free email providers in the hope of making it easier to trace suspects who use the accounts for crimes like fraud and paedophilia."

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  1. Geez, it must be early in the morning... by southpolesammy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seeing as how I read the end of the summary as "...crimes such as fraud and Philadelphia..."

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  2. This is good news! by anonymous+coword · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope they get some austrlian spammers in the process.

  3. Oops ... Passport .Net gets new meaning!! by jkrise · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you get hotmail, you could end up in the .NET and your Passport impounded!

    Hotmail - More Useful Eeryday!!

    Thanks for the tip.

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  4. Aw jeez by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where will I store my spam now?

  5. Mwuhahahahahhaaaaa.. by jkrise · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the article:
    "Hotmail figures quite prominently in our investigations not because Microsoft is a bad company but because they have provided a good service that can be used anywhere," he said.

    Mwuhaa
    Mwuhaha
    Mwuhahaha
    Mwuhahahaha
    Mwuhaha hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

    More Useful Everyday.
    Real Hot mail.

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  6. Look, you dumb Ozzies by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only way you'll be able to run an effective police state is to firewall yourself off from the free world. See here for examples of how to do it.

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  7. Maybe offenders should... by yelohbird · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...register their free courriel accounts to the address
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
    Washington, DC 20500

    then some real criminals can be apprehended =d

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  8. Joe2883 a.k.a. thingboy a.k.a. ravenousbeast666... by StringBlade · · Score: 4, Funny
    for crimes like fraud and paedophilia.


    FBI man #1: I think I found another one.

    FBI man #2: Who is it this time?

    FBI man #1: JohanSBach@freemail.ms -- he claims to be 4 years old and living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    FBI man #2: I think I got one too! GWBushy@mailrus.gov claims to live in the same place!

    FBI man #1: You know, when I started this project, I thought it would be a little easier than this.

    FBI man #2: I know what you mean...we've gone though 150,000 email accounts so far and have found only 5 accounts that weren't fraudulent.

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  9. Nope Nope Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The only way to defeat pedophilia is to REGISTER KIDS. Oh, no, wait...