Microsoft Corp. has filed 117 lawsuits against unknown Internet site operators who used "phishing" schemes to obtain personal and financial information from unsuspecting consumers, the world's largest software maker said on Thursday. Often scam artists pose as banks or other legitimate businesses, sending out millions of e-mails or pop-up Web advertisements with requests that the recipient update their account information but instead direct them to fake sites.
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said it was filing "John Doe" defendant lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Washington state in an attempt to establish connections between worldwide "phishers" and discover the largest-volume operators. "We must work together to stop these con artists from misusing the Internet as a tool for fraud," Aaron Kornblum, Internet safety enforcement attorney at Microsoft, said in a statement.
News source: Reuters
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft said it was filing "John Doe" defendant lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Washington state in an attempt to establish connections between worldwide "phishers" and discover the largest-volume operators. "We must work together to stop these con artists from misusing the Internet as a tool for fraud," Aaron Kornblum, Internet safety enforcement attorney at Microsoft, said in a statement.
News source: Reuters
"Readily available digital video content remains a key driver for the portable multimedia player market," said Josh Martin, associate research analyst at IDC. "The proliferation and growth of video service providers will serve to fill the existing video content void and increase adoption of portable multimedia players such as Windows Mobile-based devices." A one-year premium membership to the MSN Video Downloads service with access to all available videos is $19.95 (U.S.). In addition, people can access a limited amount of free content without a paid membership
Seems like your Cash and Lawyers can help as all.
Not for the long term!
Quit tolling you idiot.
Phising is nothing to do with any OS or application that you are using.
Phisers usually use URLs which look like legit URLs.
For example eday.com looks like ebay.com,
Most people are guible enough to mistake one for the other url.
Last edited by 89300 on 01 Apr 2005 - 02:39
-Ax
He'll be all "Pew Pew!" and they'll be all "Wuargh!" and we'll be all "Yay *Drink*"
And then Arucard get HUNGRY
Give them a break and pat them on the back for helping take at least one company down
A case of the pot calling the kettle black.
It's one thing to step on someone's toes by accident...it's another to have meetings on how to do it and get away with it by stalling it in court for years.
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