FBI: Expect More Spam Prosecutions

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via InfoWorld.

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U.S. Internet users should expect a growing number of prosecutions for
sending spam and related activities, such as creating botnets, officials
with two U.S. law enforcement organizations said Thursday.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has 70 active investigations into
spam-related crimes, said FBI special agent J. Keith Mularski, speaking at
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's spam summit. The FBI has worked with
the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a partnership
between law enforcement agencies, universities, and private businesses, to
identity spammers, he said.

The NCFTA, launched in 2002, has identified more than 100 "significant
spammers," including five tied to traditional organized crime, Mularski
said.

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More:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/12/Expect-more-spam-prosecutions_1.h
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- - ferg

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