The Long Arm of Microsoft

eldavojohn writes "Software giant Microsoft is helping the law track down and find phishers and political borders are no boundary for them. From the article, 'One court case in Turkey has already led to a 2.5-year prison sentence for a so-called "phisher" in Turkey, and another four cases against teenagers have been settled out of court, Microsoft said on Wednesday, eight months after it announced the launch of a Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative in March.' This initiative started back in March and has resulted in 129 lawsuits in Europe & the Middle East. Perhaps their legions of lawyers will come to some use for the rest of us but teenagers settling out of court? That reeks of RIAA/MPAA tactics to me."

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Re:Phishers a parallel with P2P? Give me a break.

[eldavojohn]

Comparing this to the RIAA cases? Give me a break. That's like comparing a rapist with someone taking a second glance at someone they find attractive.

I'm glad you personally watched all of these 129 cases go down and that you found all of them to be genuine phishers. How many teenagers are capable of setting up phishing scams?

You know, we were told that these people are phishers, if you can provide some first party accounts of every case, I'll gladly consider myself a dumbass for using that comparison in the submission.

It's the 'settling out of court' that sounds suspicious to me. Why wouldn't Microsoft drive them into the ground like you suggest? Why not bankrupt them and jail them?

I apologize for not blindly accepting this story as complete 100% truth. Forgive my skepticism.