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11-Jan-02 06:18:07 ET
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"A California teenager accused of running an Internet scheme that raked in more than US$1 million from unwitting investors brazenly kept working the scam..."
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"The extravagance of his claims made in Internet chat rooms did not stop at least 1,000 investors from sending him $1 million over six weeks..."
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10-Jan-02 12:48:10 ET
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"At the corner market, the skim is in the refrigerated milk — and perhaps in the store's cash-dispensing ATM..."
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"The cybercrooks' technique is so clandestine that consumers often don't know that they've become victims until they check their monthly bank statements — or when checks start to inexplicably 'bounce' due to lack of available funds..."
10-Jan-02 14:37:50 ET
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"Security breaches and hacking attacks have diminished in numbers since the September 11 terrorist attacks..."
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"Monthly reports by the Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC), a central security coordination and analysis facility run by the US government, show just 15 incidents of intruder activity reported to it last month - less than a third of that recorded in December 2000..."
11-Jan-02 11:06:02 ET
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"In December, a site called Adequacy.org posted the piece by author T.Reginald Gibbons 'How to Tell if Your Son is a Computer Hacker...'"
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"Mr. Gibbons, model parent and patriarch of 'the finest family in the USA' had his cozy world torn apart, as before his eyes his son Peter turned into a shifty computer geek..."
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