{"id":289,"date":"2006-11-03T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T20:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=289"},"modified":"2006-11-03T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T20:32:32","slug":"fbi-tracks-down-big-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"FBI Tracks Down Big Phish"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Techdirt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You would think that it wouldn't be that<\/i> hard to track down
\nphishing scammers. While they do try to hide themselves, in the end,
\nthere should be some sort of money trail leading back to them. However,
\nfor all the talk of trying to track these guys down, it seemed like no
\none ever got anywhere. There was a ton of hype around Microsoft
\ncatching a phishing “kingpin” until you realized that it was just some
\nkid who set up a website<\/a> and never made any money<\/a>.
\nThe real problem, everyone always said, was that the real phishing
\nkingpins operated as part of organized crime in Eastern Europe — and
\nthat made them tough to track down. Partly due to the nature of any
\norganized crime setup, it probably wasn't that hard to nab the small
\nfry who were the front men — but that was useless if you wanted to
\ncatch the big phish who actually masterminded the operation. However,
\nthat doesn't mean the authorities weren't working on it. The FBI has
\nannounced that they've brought down one phishing group<\/a>, arresting at least 16 people. Up to five of those arrested are American<\/a>
\nwith the rest being Polish. The FBI is still trying to track down
\nothers involved, including some in Romania. While it's definitely great
\nto see them finally bring down a big phishing group, it should suggest
\nhow big a problem this really is that it's taken this long to nab one
\nsingle group. Just imagine how many more are still out there, phishing
\naway.<\/div>\n

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From Techdirt: You would think that it wouldn't be that hard to track down phishing scammers. While they do try to hide themselves, in the end, there should be some sort of money trail leading back to them. However, for all the talk of trying to track these guys down, it seemed like no one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}