Word: moldova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only ones the government wants to protect from cyberporn. The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated refunds of $2.75 million for thousands of U.S. customers who unwittingly racked up charges in a Net sex scam in which supposedly free Websites rerouted modem connections through the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, taking lascivious surfers on a very costly ride...
...million: Estimated amount paid by the U.S. for each of 21 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets bought this year from Moldova...
WASHINGTON: The price of knowing your enemy has seldom been cheaper. In the military bargain of the century, the Pentagon purchased 21 top-of-the-line MIG-29C fighters from the former Soviet republic of Moldova for a totally crazy $40 million. But what exactly does the U.S. military plan to do with the planes it bought, ostensibly to prevent them being sold to Iran...
...surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from their Internet provider and silently dialed a number in Moldova, a state east of Romania. Phone charges of up to $3 per minute kept mounting, even after the user stopped using the site, until the computer was turned off. Since some people leave their computers on round the clock, some of the bills were enormous. The scam started to unravel...
When Lebed was running for President last spring, one of his campaign posters showed him in battle dress over the caption, "I have already stopped one war." That was a reference to his termination of a mini-civil war in Moldova after it went independent in 1991 and a promise he could do the same in Chechnya. He was startled nonetheless when he learned two weeks ago that Yeltsin had named him his new special representative to find a settlement in the breakaway region. Lebed was sure his rivals in the government "apparatus" were trying to set him up. "Someone...