A New York teenager has become the first American to be arrested for sending spam messages across IM networks. Anthony Greco, 18, of Cheektowaga, New York, was charged with violations of the CAN-SPAM Act after allegedly sending 1.5m messages punting mortgage refinancing and adult pornography to MySpace.com users in October and November 2004. According to a criminal complaint, Greco created thousands of fraudulent instant messaging accounts on MySpace.com to bombard its users with junk IM messages.
咦？又是小鬼？現在的小鬼真是太有「錢途」了，又是 hardware keylogger 又是 IM spammer…
A high-school student used a hardware keystroke logger — the undetectable kind that sits between the keyboard and the computer — to steal exams in order to sell them.
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