[LINK] Victorians help mafia steal cash

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:43 PM 22/01/2007, brd at iimetro.com.au wrote:
>She said the Federal Police did not have statistics on the total number of
>mules
>who had been identified or how many had been arrested.

And the reason is because they did NOT want to KNOW! I tried several 
times to report it as the links back to the people sending the 
phishing email was easily discernable. They seemed to think because 
they had applied a label to the problem they had addressed it. This 
was last year.

>Queensland police, according to the nation's computer security agency Austr
>alian
>Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), have been running an undercover
>operation in which officers act as mules to target the online criminal gang
>s.

Thank goodness someone is acting on this.

Jan


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