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Organized Crime Behind Online Crime

Posted on Apr 29, 2006 by Tom Fragala

The mmfhoh blog has an interesting post about organized crimes impact or influence on Internet-based crime. No question in my mind here that organized crime, especially the Russian mob, plays a huge part in fraud and scams. Some that spring to mind immediately are work at home scams (where your job is to wire cash to Russia after cashing fraudulent checks) and phishing attacks.