Phishing Crackdown

[jeffrey]

In what cybersecurity experts call the biggest crackdown on spam to date, the Justice Department is expected to announce today a series of arrests against junk e-mailers and online scammers, a marketing group involved in the investigation said.

The cybercrime sweep, part of a yearlong investigation called Operation Slam Spam, involves more than 100 cases and dozens of people, one source with knowledge of it says.

Many of the cases center on "phishing," fraudulent e-mail that appears to come from banks and other businesses.

The messages are designed to hoodwink consumers into providing their credit card numbers and other personal information.

Other incidents cover the use of spam to infect PCs with computer viruses and worms designed to let hackers later filch personal data or remotely control PCs to launch fraudulent e-mail and electronic attacks... [read more at usatoday.com]

Read the SavingAdvice.com article Common Internet Scams on other scams to be on the outlook for.