-=PCTechTalk=- Microsoft filed 117 John Doe cases
- From: "Bashful Bob" <Bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
- To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 07:02:42 -0500
"Earlier this week Microsoft filed 117 John Doe cases today to learn the
identity of scam artists who have been targeting its Hotmail and MSN
customers in phishing scams, according to a Washington Post story. This is
the same tactic the music and motion picture industries have used to mixed
success against file-swappers, except in this case the ISPs themselves are
some of the biggest targets of phishing scams. The story says the tactic has
already worked once for Microsoft; in a case last year where ISP subpoenas
led to a kid in Iowa who was caught phishing MSN users from his grandpa's
dial-up account. The 21-year-old was ordered to pay Microsoft $3 million,
but I doubt his job at Blockbuster is going to make a dent in that debt."
For the story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16257-2005Mar31.html
Microsoft Seeks to Identify Phishing Scam Authors
By Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, March 31, 2005; 3:51 PM
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday escalated its efforts to crack down on Internet
fraud, announcing that it filed more than a hundred lawsuits aimed at
identifying people the company says targeted its e-mail and Internet service
customers through "phishing" scams.
Microsoft filed 117 civil lawsuits against unnamed individuals in federal
district court in Seattle, hoping to learn the identities of those behind a
rash of fraudulent e-mail messages identified over the past six months that
specifically targeted customers of Microsoft's MSN Internet and Hotmail
e-mail services, the company said.
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