Organized crime groups going online, report says -- beware!
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....it's The Seven Seals.....
A fifth trend that we can expect to see is what might be termed jurisdictional arbitrage.
A sixth trend is that the Internet is increasingly likely to be used for money laundering.
A seventh trend involves growing network connections between hackers or small-time criminals and organized crime.
I wonder if they could get me off Windows.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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In addition, of course, organized crime groups use the Internet for communications (usually encrypted) and for any other purposes when they see it as useful and profitable. Indeed, organized crime is proving as flexible and adaptable in its exploitation of cyberopportunities as it is in any other opportunities for illegal activity.
Just a note here, but this is one of the most common stereotypes about organized crime figures, and it's just not true. These guys are businessmen -- they won't turn down a deal just because it happens to be legal. Organized crime figures are proving flexible and adaptable in their exploitation of opportunities to make a profit -- they are not interested in "illegal activity" exclusively, they just don't give a damn whether a given opportunity happens to be legal or not. Bear
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Organized crime groups are using the Internet for major fraud and theft activities.
Nothing new about that, beginning with the most successful crime organizations of all -- governments. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBO3m3VPPsjZpmLV0BAQH8+wIAmD4K7V+yqzNEoUyqFZoNFVh2PfiAaPs/ pQRCk0NAVZ3UildGnzl5kiGvO68OWFsIuTaT68IFxdYbE487thBgdw== =G4KK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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