Three Plead Guilty in Nigerian Spam Scheme
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E-Mail sob stories that turn out to be scams could bring jail terms for trio who coaxed $1.2 million from victims.
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Six reputed members of the Gambino crime family pleaded guilty to ringing up more than &#36;650 million in unauthorized charges on telephone customers' credit cards and phone bills.
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A MAN convicted of violating anti-spam laws by sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited emails using fake addresses faces nine years in prison in Virginia, US authorities say.
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Members of a "pump-and-dump" spam group face prison terms, civil charges filed by the SEC.
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Up to five years in prison A Washington-state man pleaded guilty to one felony count of computer fraud relating to charges he spread malware to users of an internet relay chat (IRC) channel. He faces up five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in early May.â¦
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Dutch authorities have announced that country&#39;s first fines against spammers, including an individual and two companies who sent unsolicited e-mails and mobile telephone text messages.
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Description: John Rowland pleads guilty to one federal conspiracy charge related to his acceptance of gifts and services from companies doing business with the state.
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Three people accused of scamming Microsoft Corp. by buying sharply discounted software intended for educational institutions and reselling it to nonacademic customers were convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges, federal prosecutors said.
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Junk e-mailers are using free Web pages to disguise spam sources, manipulate search engines.
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Ghana's greed A Nigerian national who had been living in Canada was taken into custody by Winnipeg police in connection with a West African email scam alleged to have bilked an 84-year old man of $30,000.â¦
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Three people who allegedly sent America Online customers millions of junk e-mail messages touting penny stocks and other Internet gimmicks went on trial Tuesday in the nation&#39;s first such felony case.
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Three Ontario men are being sued for allegedly sending millions of forged e-mail messages from Internet giants Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.
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Admits to sending junk mail to 1.2m AOL subscribers A New York man who was snared in federal investigators' sting operation targeting senders of junk email pleaded guilty to spamming 1.2m AOL subscribers.â¦
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Watchdogs in the Netherlands have taken the first strike in an ongoing campaign against unsolicited e-mail by levying fines against three spammers.
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Three people pleaded guilty on Tuesday and promised to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution in a massive Florida insurance scam that cost investors nearly $1 billion, prosecutors said.
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RAYMOND Reginald Williams, who had previously claimed he could have saved HIH from collapse, yesterday pleaded guilty to three criminal charges arising from his management of the failed insurer.
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Microsoft, AOL, EarthLink and Yahoo filed three new lawsuits to stop the spread of unsolicited e-mail.