Internet crackdown leads to over 100 arrests
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In what is being called the largest global crackdown ever conducted, the US Department of Justice&#39;s &quot;Operation Web Snare&quot; has led to over 100 arrests.
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Police in Amsterdam arrested more than 100 West Africans Saturday as part of a seven month long investigation into Internet fraud, they said.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 15 September: Chinese police authorities shut down more than 320 illegal web sites and Internet columns and deleted 15,000 items of hazardous information from Internet from September 6 to 8.
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In March 1990, when few people had even heard of the Internet, U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Texas offices of a small board-game maker, seizing computer equipment and reading customers&#039; e-mail stored on one machine. A group of online pioneers already worried about how the nation&#039;s laws were being applied to new technologies became even more fearful and decided to intervene.
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Police have indicated there will be hundreds more arrests as part of Australia&#39;s largest ever crackdown on child pornography. Authorities have so far charged more than 190 people with a total of 2000 offences
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Police have information on more than 500 Australians who access child porn and more arrests are likely, Australiaâs police chief said today, a day after announcing the countryâs largest ever crackdown on the industry.
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Australian Federal Police say the arrest of more than 150 people in relation to internet child pornography should send a clear message about the seriousness of the crime.
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It disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and is making a series of arrests against purveyors of spam.
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US Department of Justice said law-enforcement agencies have arrested or convicted more than 150 individuals in a broad initiative against cybercrime.
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Federal agents have initiated a two-pronged attack against online crime by arresting dozens for alleged cyberfraud and raiding a file-sharing network that allowed users to download copyrighted movies and music for free.
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US law enforcers have arrested dozens in a crackdown on &quot;spam&quot; e-mail, identity theft and other fraudulent online activity, a person involved in the investigation says.
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Â· Internet industry asked to help curb illegal materialÂ· Terror bill proposes new powers against suspects
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Federal agents armed with search warrants conducted raids in three states Wednesday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the theft of copyrighted materials through the Internet, the Justice Department announced.
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POLICE officers are among more than 150 people charged with about 2000 child sex offences resulting from Australia&#39;s biggest crackdown on internet child pornography.
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A summer-long effort targeting Internet crime has resulted in dozens of arrests and convictions on charges including use of "spam" e-mail to steal credit card numbers, computer hacking and online fraud, Justice Department officials said Thursday. -AP
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The Justice Department is set to announce a major crackdown on cyber-crime that will include arrests, subpoenas and property seizures of alleged e-mail spammers and online scam artists, according to law enforcement and industry sources.
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Three U.S. agencies have initiated more than 100 law enforcement actions against bogus business-opportunity peddlers and work-at-home scams, including several Internet-based schemes.