IT Used on 70% of Crimes in Abu Dhabi
Crimes committed with the use of IT account for about 70 percent of all illegal activity in Abu Dhabi, according to a new report cited by GulfNews. Addressing interrogators, judges and law students, Maj. Saeed Mohammad Al Hajeri, lead of the Information Technology Crime Department of Dubai Police, said recent studies show that cyber criminals [...]
A man from California has been charged with extortion for allegedly threatening his insurance company with a spam attack if the company failed to pay him $200,000. The price would increase to $3 million if the deadline was not met by the company, according to court documents. Anthony Digati, 52, faces a possible 2 year [...]
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A California man has been indicted for attempting to extort approximately $200,000 or more from an insurance company by threatening to spam it and ruin its reputation by making false public statements in emails and on a website he created. According to the indictment returned yesterday by a grand jury and other documents filed in [...]
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Giving a whole new meaning to Internet crime, a man in California was arrested for threatening to send millions of emails and messages that maligned a large life insurance company. Asking the company for $200,000 Anthony Digati, of Chino, California, was arrested for extortion through interstate communications. His purpose was to destroy the reputation of [...]
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