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Head of phishing ring gets 12 years in prison for scamming 38K victims – Digitaltrends.com

Have you ever received an email pretending to be a bank or credit card company? A California man received a sizable prison sentence today for sending those emails and bilking victims out of their money. That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today …
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Head of phishing ring gets 12 years in prison for scamming 38K victims – YAHOO!

That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today for his role in designing websites to mock financial institutions and using those sites to scam over 38,000 victims. He worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email …
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FBI: Crime Ring Stole $70 Million Using Computer Virus – ABC News

… computer virus used in the scam … which has traditionally targeted PCs but has now been updated to attack cell phones as well, is designed to steal bank account log-on credentials. It either lures the victim to click on a link in an e-mail or steers …
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