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'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests
unassimilatible writes "Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday that law-enforcement agents had arrested 125 suspects in a crackdown on Internet crimes ranging from hacking and software piracy to credit card fraud and selling stolen goods over the Internet, according to Wired. The investigation, begun Oct. 1 and dubbed Operation Cyber Sweep, involved police from Ghana to Southern California and uncovered 125,000 victims who had lost more than $100 million. Seventy indictments to date have led to arrests or convictions of 125 people, with more expected as the probe continues. The cases range from a Virginia woman who sent fake e-mails to America Online customers asking them to update their credit card numbers to a disgruntled Philadelphia Phillies fan who hacked into computers nationwide and launched spam e-mails criticizing the baseball team. 'The information superhighway should be a conduit for communication, information and commerce, not an expressway for crime,' Ashcroft said."
I guess this is why the guy in Indonesia that wanted to buy some hardware off me with a credit card suddenly stopped replying to my emails. Damn that Ashcroft; the guy wasn't even worried about price.
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Did they catch the founders of PayPal?
This Homeland Security thing is really working!
I was under the impression they were the ones who policed the Internet.
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Thanks to Asscroft, most citizens can be accused of commiting crimes ["terrorism"] at any arbitary point in time.
Now that's just unfair. John Ashcroft's a great Christian Attorney General.
And 'Operation Cyber Thought Crime Sweep' doesn't start until next week, you commie pinko medical-marijuana-using atheist Muslim non-Allegiance-pledging bong-selling Democrat terrorist.
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I know he's one of the worst people in high places, but I think this is a good thing. He's not invading peoples privacy or instituting some terrible law, he's actually helping people.
You left out a word there. Here, I'll fix it for you:
I know he's one of the worst people in high places, but I think this is a good thing.
WHEN He's not invading peoples privacy or instituting some terrible law, he's actually helping people.
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"...a Virginia woman who sent fake e-mails to America Online customers asking them to update their credit card numbers to a disgruntled Philadelphia Phillies fan..."
I'm not a baseball fan. Was it supposed to make him feel better about their season?
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? --Abraham Lincoln
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria also helped track down suspects and recover millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
Slightly offtopic here, but will those funds be repayed to the fools who were stupid enough to fall for the scam?
Or will they just spend it on military equipment, as seems to happen with all excess money ?
Just curious.
"Hell hath no fury like a hippo with a machine gun."
Let's not forget that this guy lost an election to someone who had died before we nominate him for any humanitarian awards.
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