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Article: Feds crack down on Internet crime
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- November 21, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors have charged more than 125
suspected computer hackers, identity thieves and other cyberspace
scammers in a nationwide crackdown on Internet crime, law enforcement
officials said Thursday.
Those facing charges include run-of-the-mill counterfeiters and
software pirates, as well as a man who illegally tried to sell
Congressional Medals of Honor online and another man who hijacked the
Web site of the al-Jazeera Arabic language news network to display a
patriotic U.S. message.
"The information superhighway should be a conduit for
communication, information and commerce, not an expressway to crime,"
Attorney General John Ashcroft said. "It is a top federal law ...