News tagged with internet fraud
Former Yahoo! executive charged with insider trading
US regulators announced that a former Yahoo! executive has agreed to plead guilty in an insider trading scheme that involved leaking word of the Internet search giant's pact with Microsoft.
May 22, 2012 |
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Online scams cost $485 mn in US in 2011: survey
Online scams including identity theft schemes, "advance fee" and "romance fraud" cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday.
May 10, 2012 |
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Estonia to extradite high flying cyber crime suspect to US
Estonia on Thursday said it would extradite Estonian citizen Anton Ivanov to the United States over alleged cyber crimes involving such popular websites as iTunes, Netflix and the US tax service.
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Building consumer trust critical to online marketing success, researchers find
(PhysOrg.com) -- With identity fraud and the increasingly open Internet growing, consumers seem less likely to give out personal information online. For e-commerce and online marketers, this is a roadblock to the customer ...
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Feb 29, 2012 |
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China web firms vow to curb 'harmful' information
The heads of China's largest Internet and technology firms have vowed to stop the "spread of harmful information" on the web after attending a three-day government workshop, state media said Sunday.
Nov 06, 2011 |
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PayPal opens Southeast Asian operations centre
PayPal, the US-based online payment giant, has moved to expand its global presence with its first Southeast Asian operations centre, the latest in a string of similar offices around the globe.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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US curbs on online poker compared to Prohibition
A former US senator who now represents poker players compared US efforts to curb online gambling to Prohibition on Tuesday as he argued for legislation that would allow Internet gaming.
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Vietnam holds 59 Chinese, Taiwanese for fraud
Vietnamese police have detained 29 Chinese and 30 Taiwanese suspects in the region's latest Internet fraud scam, an officer said on Tuesday.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Internet frauds jump in S.Korea: police
The number of arrests linked to online fraud in South Korea, one of the world's most wired countries, increased by more than 50 percent in the past two years, police warned Wednesday.
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Alibaba says China police arrest 36 in fraud probe
Police have arrested 36 people in southeast China following an investigation into fraud on e-commerce site Alibaba.com and other websites that duped buyers out of more than $6 million.
Jul 02, 2011 |
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Major online poker room ordered to halt operations
One of the largest online poker rooms, Full Tilt Poker, was ordered Wednesday to immediately halt operations by authorities on the Channel Island of Alderney, where it is registered, the regulator said.
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Two Latvians indicted in US in 'scareware' scam
Two Latvians have been indicted and dozens of computers and servers seized in the United States and Europe in a crackdown on international cybercrime, the US Justice Department said Wednesday.
Jun 23, 2011 |
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Japan's brash Livedoor tycoon heads to jail
Sporting a mohican haircut and a protest T-shirt, Japan's maverick Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie on Monday started a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for accounting fraud.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Japan Livedoor tycoon Horie to be jailed
Japan's brash Livedoor Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie will be jailed after losing his final appeal against a conviction for accounting fraud, a judicial official said Tuesday.
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Anonymous vows payback for case against PS3 hacker
Internet vigilante group Anonymous has vowed retribution against Sony for taking legal action against hackers that cracked PlayStation 3 (PS3) defenses to change console operating software.
Apr 05, 2011 |
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