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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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Japan seeks victims’ help to battle hackers – AsiaOne

Cyber-attacks against specific organizations or individuals are often launched by sending e-mail that appears to be from a friend or client of the target, but contains a computer virus that enables hackers to access data in the target’s computer system.
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Japanese government seeks victims’ help to battle online hackers – Sacramento Bee

Virtually no details of such attacks or resulting damage have been disclosed to … appears to be from a friend or client of the target but actually contains a computer virus that enables hackers to access data in the target’s computer system.
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