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    Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced Thursday that his office had made its first felony indictment under the state's antispam law.

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    A Queensland man has received a two-year suspended sentence for spamming up to four million people and placing misleading messages on Internet bulletin boards in an attempt to hike up the value of shares in a US company.

  • Gold dust in cyberspace: fighting online fraud

    Exactly how has the dastardly business of fraud benefitted from the rise of the Internet? Just ask the Electronic Enforcements Unit (EEU) of Australian securities watchdog ASIC, which has some interesting - but scary - stories to tell.

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