South Korean Programmers Arrested for Spam Blast

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Sounds like phish to me...

Via C|Net News (Reuters).

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Two South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of
sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages in violation of the country's
commerce laws, police said on Tuesday.

The two men, one aged 20 and the other 26, are suspected of sending out the
unsolicited e-mail messages between September and December last year in
what police describe as one of the biggest spam blasts in the country's
history.

The two are suspected of obtaining personal and financial data from 12,000
South Koreans who responded to their spam messages. The pair then sold
information on those people to lending services firms in return for 100
million won ($106,400), police said.

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More:
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6154563.html

- - ferg


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