How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central

Wired by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee | Feb. 6, 2011 (Special Report)

No one really knows how or why those kids started scamming people on the Internet. “If you find out, you let us know,” says Codruţ Olaru, head of Romania’s Directorate for Investigation on Organized Crime and Terrorism. Whatever the reason, online crime was widespread by 2002. Cybercafés offered cheap Internet access, and crooks in Râmnicu Vâlcea got busy posting fake ads on eBay and other auction sites to lure victims into remitting payments by ... Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Slatest, Donica Mensing (t)

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Subjects: U.S., Business, Sci/Tech, Community
Topics: Internet, Crime
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Feb 1, 2011 - 9:23 AM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Feb 6, 2011 - 9:40 AM PST

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