CrimLaw

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Are you dubious about all those wonderful ads which arrive daily in your e-mail? Does anyone actually believe those offers? Apparently enough people bite that the fedgov had to step in.

The feds have crashed down on a number of internet scammers including:

(1) An online pyramid investment scheme netted $60 million and resulted in the extradition of two people from Costa Rica.

(2) A prolific spammer based in Buffalo was arrested on Tuesday and accused of sending 825 million e-mail messages over Earthlink's Internet services by setting up 343 accounts with fraudulent credit card numbers.

(3) A couple was indicted in California on charges of operating a fraudulent Russian dating scheme that stole $600,000 from 400 victims over three years. The two had contacted male victims through personal advertisements posing as Russian or Ukrainian women.

This if from the NYTimes but if you don't believe it anymore the article is mirrored at CNN (or was it mirrored by NYTimes?).

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