Sunday, July 08, 2007

Busting Internet Fraud That Sends Four to San Quentin

Elise Ackerman writes in The Mercury News:

Veteran San Jose detective Mike Niehoff's dogged persistence has been the undoing of criminal street gangs and Internet frauds.

It was an out-of-place detail in an out-of-town theft that tipped San Jose police detective Mike Niehoff to a massive Internet fraud.

The case involved a small criminal crew that took advantage of three of the Silicon Valley's most trusted brands - Craigslist, eBay and PayPal - to steal tens of thousands of dollars from Bay Area residents by the dozen.

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