UK Police Maintain Uneasy Relations With Cyber-Vigilantes
Tom Espiner writes on C|Net News:
The London-area Metropolitan Police Service has turned to some unlikely allies in the fight against Internet crime: cyberactivists who are taking action against online fraudsters.More here.
The police are working with certain cybervigilante groups, using them as a source of information in the fight against fraud, according to sources within the Metropolitan Police fraud alert unit. This includes Artists Against 419, whose activities include consuming the bandwidth of fraudulent banking and lottery sites in an attempt to force them off the Internet.
posted by Fergie @ 1/17/2007 10:00:00 AM
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