Germany Makes Arrests In Global Phishing Scam

Monkier writes "PC World reports on a sting by German police resulting in the arrest of ten people suspected of a phishing scam. The group was targeted bank customers with emails from organizations like eBay and Deutsche Telekom. The team attached software to the emails that recorded data entered into the host computers. From the article: '"This case shows that criminal organizations are using the Internet more and more to gain enormous amounts of money with a supposedly low risk of being caught," said Crime Office President Joerg Ziercke in a statement. "The authorities face constant new challenges in the fight against computer crime where perpetrators are developing a higher degree of professionalism and specialization." The office said the suspects had led luxurious lifestyles involving expensive jewelry, cars and travel.'"

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Yeah! punish them.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

But don't say anything about people who sold them the brain dead computer that will allow drive by downloads. Protect companies that sold insecure software. But these damn phishermen, lock them away in prison. These blokes probably get better food in a German prison than in their farm in Ukraine. But that is not the issue. And there could be more phishermen from where they come from, but that is not an issue.

Let us say people park their cars without locks in a high crime neighborhood and the car gets stolen. May be the police should just shrug and say, "whatd'ya expect?" That will teach the losers security, automobile or computers, is at least partly their responsibility.