U.S. Tally in Online-Crime Sweep: 150 Charged
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The cases, involving credit card fraud, corporate espionage and other offenses, are part of what the Justice Department calls Operation Web Snare.
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More than a hundred individuals have been arrested and charged this summer in a federal computer and Internet-related crime sweep known as Operation Web Snare, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said today.
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British police, with U.S. investigators, shatter a global internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide. Authorities bust an internet chat room hosting horrific images and streaming live videos of kids.
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More than 100 people have been arrested following the US law enforcement agencies&#39; latest offensive against Internet related crime.
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The Department of Justice and the yesterday FBI said ongoing investigations have identified more than 1 million botnet crime victims.
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A sting in the works for most of 2006 has trigged over 100 law-enforcement actions targeting fraudulent business-opportunity offers and work-at-home scams, the FTC announced Tuesday.
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Federal and state officials  said they were rounding up scores of accused organized crime figures in the largest such sweep in recent memory.
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More than 150 are arrested in Australia's largest ever operation against child pornography.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 5  - More than 135 people have been arrested in an international crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing operations that may have netted hundreds of millions of dollars from unwary victims, US Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday
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A huge sweep for online fraud and other Internet-related crimes netted 53 convictions and another 103 arrests, the Justice Department announced.
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By Greg Miller, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 23--Sabrina McDonnell knew that online crime was bad before Internet scoundrels flooded inboxes with phony e-mails trolling for First National Bank & Trust Co. account information.
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Â A group representing online merchants said it helped the U.S. Department of Justice hunt down online scam artists, in an sweep of online criminals dubbed "Operation Web Snare."
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More than 500 Australians could be involved in child pornography on the Internet, Australia&#39;s top police officer says after nationwide raids saw more than 200 people charged with over 2,000 child pornography offences.
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Also: Electronic devices seized at border searches. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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More than 100 people have been arrested so far in a global investigation that arose two years ago in Canada when police began monitoring an Internet chat room used by pedophiles to stream live videos of children being raped, authorities said Wednesday.
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Two men were indicted Friday on charges of bilking winners of online auctions out of $150,000 by making them think their money would go to Hurricane Katrina relief organizations, authorities said.
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In what was billed as the biggest federal crackdown ever on Internet crime, the Justice Department announced Thursday it arrested or convicted more than 150 people across the country.