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'Operation Cyber Sweep' Nets 125 Arrests

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cleaning-up-the-streets dept.

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."

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  1. 'GO ASHCROFT' is exactly right... by RLiegh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Go directly to goatse.cx" that is...

    1. Re:'GO ASHCROFT' is exactly right... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good Lord, you really are an ass-burglar, aren't you?

      Please stop with your supposed "funny" replies. They are pathetic.

      Thank you.

  2. Re:Ashcroft is one to talk about upholding the law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    go stick your head down a whale's penis

  3. How long... by herrvinny · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How long until Ashcroft rules porn is a crime?

    And how long will it take for Ashcroft to realize that spam should be criminalized, and the minimum punishment should be the spammer being hit with a steel rod by every person who received the spam (the parents if the receiver is a minor), and the maximum punishment should be a long and painful death?

  4. Re:Phew! ----- something a frenchy would say. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mister FancyPants? What are you a fucking frog? God, I hate french people. And muslims. French muslims the most.

  5. MICHAEL JACKSON ADMITS HIMSELF TO BETTY FORD CLINI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    C. His spokesboy said that he's addicted to 12 year old crack.

  6. Remember! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Your mare will never steal your CC number!