Australian Imprisoned for Online Scam
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A Sydney man was imprisoned for more than five years Monday for duping people into sending him millions of dollars in a global Internet ruse known as the Nigerian scam.
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Two men and a woman are jailed for sexually abusing a boy and a girl in an attack arranged on the internet.
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A financial adviser who conned miners out of hundreds of thousands of pounds while running their pension fund is jailed.
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Jail looms A notorious American spammer is heading for jail after a Virginia Appeals Court upheld his conviction and sentence to nine years' imprisonment for junk mail offences.â¦
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.
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A man who produced fake pound coins worth an estimated Â£14m is jailed for five years.
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Suspect accused of stealing and distributing source code over the Internet.
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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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Man who masterminded scam to charge people thousands of pounds for American work visas is sentenced to 15 months in prison
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Across the Internet a muffled cheer rises to greet the news of a spammer sentenced to a nine-year prison term for sending junk mail to AOL customers in the Virginia-prosecuted case against
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Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong Radio 3 audio website on 28 May  Starting from Friday [1 June], people who send electronic spam could be jailed for five years and fined 1m dollars [approx 128,000 US].
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Online criminals are exploiting human hopes and fears to spread spam and viruses.
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A US man has been jailed for six months for a 2001 attack on the web systems of space agency NASA which cost $200,000 to fix. Gregory Aaron Herns, 21, from Portland, Oregon, hacked into the network at NASA&#39;s
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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German police said on Saturday that a 19-year-old from Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, has admitted to hijacking the domain of the eBay Germany Web site and is likely to face charges of computer sabotage.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- A former America Online Inc. software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.
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Nicholas Jake Barton sentenced to three years in an Australian jail