Karr computer files reviewed by FBI
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The FBI is reviewing images of teenagers found on computer equipment seized from former JonBenet Ramsey slaying suspect John Mark Karr's home to compare the images with a national database of child porn victims, a Sonoma County prosecutor said.
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(InfoWorld) - TheÂ FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning of fraudulent e-mails that appear to come from the FBI and U.S. military. "The IC3 has increasingly received intelligence of fraudulent schemes misrepresenting the FBI and/or Director Robert S. Mueller III," the center said in an alert published Tuesday. "The fraudulent e-mails give the appearance of legitimacy due to the usage of pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letterhead, and/or banners." The spam is actually pumping lotteries or are phony inheritance notifications, the IC3 said. Other scams use the FBI's name to "intimidate and convince the recipient the e-mail is legitimate," the IC3 said. Criminals have used the agency's name in extortion e-mails and online auction scams as well. The IC3 is a clearinghouse for complaints of criminal activity on the Internet. Run jointly by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, it works with other law enforcement agencies and industries to help crack down on illegal online activity. In a separate statement also issued Tuesday, the IC3 warned that scammers were also sending out fraudulent e-mail claiming to be from U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. "The scam e-mails vary in content; however, the general theme of each is to request personal information and/or funds from the individual receiving the e-mail," the IC3 said. The e-mails are variations on long-running scams such as the Nigerian "419" spam, which has been "surprisingly effective at extracting large amounts of cash from victims.," said Adam O'Donnell, a senior research scientist at antispam vendor Cloudmark. "Users have to be aware that anyone asking for your bank account information via e-mail, regardless of their stated reason, is trying to steal your hard-earned money," he said.
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One of those charged yesterday was Dhiren Barot -- known publicly until yesterday as Eisa Hindi -- who is suspected of conducting surveillance of US financial buildings that was detailed in computer files seized recently in ...
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Federal investigators have asked the House of Representatives to keep computer records and papers from former Rep. Mark Foley, a senior Justice Department official said Wednesday. The move is a sign that a criminal investigation into the congressman's correspondences with teen pages is imminent, Justice Department officials said.
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The FBI is investigating whether a section of Chicago commuter train tracks was sabotaged after Metra workers discovered a dozen railroad spikes missing
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John Mark Karr, the one-time suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case, plans to fight 5-year-old misdemeanor child pornography charges he faces in California, his defense lawyer said Thursday.
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Also: Feds slow in getting records on Web. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By KATHERINE SHRADER WASHINGTON - Using a new laptop and a satellite link, FBI agents can find out within two minutes whether the fingerprint from a newly captured suspect overseas matches a terrorist database in Virginia.
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The FBI illegally or improperly obtained information on the US public, a new justice department report says.
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An FBI computer system that quickly screens gun buyers' backgrounds for criminal activity crashed several times over the past two days, officials said Monday.
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DOJ announces arrests, convictions for online fraud and other Net-related crimes.
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The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jun. 27--It caused enough concern -- an apparently leaking package, a return address in Africa and a rash -- to bring in the FBI, a hazardous-materials response team and the bomb squad.   In the end, it was largely benign.
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The FBI (website) has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks
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By Tom Kertscher and Mike Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 1--CEDARBURG -- Nudity and explicit sexual acts are depicted in 1,500 images found on the school computer of fired teacher Robert Zellner, a computer disc reviewed by the Journal Sentinel shows.
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Â· Actor took advantage of fan for four years, QC saysÂ· Police found pornographic images on home computer
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The prosecutor in the JonBenet Ramsey case Tuesday defended her decision to bring John Mark Karr halfway around the world to Colorado for investigation, saying it was difficult to separate fact from fantasy in his lurid account because every detail of the slaying is public knowledge.