E-mail hoaxer pleads guilty
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A man admits sending hoax emails telling people their relatives missing in the Asian tsunami were dead.
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Third British-based man pleads guilty to using internet to spread extremist propaganda.
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A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in US history, surpassing $50 million (?40 million), pleaded guilty Tuesday
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A United States man convicted of violating anti-spam laws by sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited emails using fake addresses faces nine years in prison in Virginia.
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Admits to sending junk mail to 1.2m AOL subscribers A New York man who was snared in federal investigators' sting operation targeting senders of junk email pleaded guilty to spamming 1.2m AOL subscribers.â¦
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A former Senate computer technician pleaded guilty Wednesday to having child pornography on his office and government-issued laptop computers.
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Two men accused of aiding a Romanian man charged with hacking into the online ordering system of the world's largest computer equipment distributor pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
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Three people at the center of a scam that preyed on investors by enticing them with voice-mail messages packaged as secret stock tips pleaded guilty to criminal charges yesterday in a District courtroom.
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An e-mail disguised as a Red Hat patch update is a fake designed to trick users into downloading malware, the Linux vendor warned in a message on its Web site.
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The former head of human resources at America Online pleaded guilty Thursday to a wire-fraud charge in connection with the theft of $100,000 from the Internet firm.
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A former El Paso County commissioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud for accepting bribes in exchange for votes, the latest plea in an ongoing public corruption investigation.
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update A district judge in New York has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee charged with stealing 92 million e-mail addresses from the online giant, citing vagueness in the prosecutors&#39; argument that the theft violated
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Scammers are using fake electronic greetings to lure recipients to malicious sites.
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A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.
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A British man was jailed for six months for sending hoax e-mails to friends and relatives of people missing in the Indian Ocean tsunami, claiming they were dead.
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A former top lawyer for website Monster pleads guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud regarding stock options.
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DENVER - A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.