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...Service agents say they've uncovered the biggest e-commerce extortion scheme ever, involving more than one million credit card numbers stolen by hackers working with Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. Agents say the mobsters hack e-commerce sites, download customers' personal information and credit card numbers, then call victim companies to extort protection money. They threaten to post the purloined personal information and card numbers on the Internet - angering current customers and scaring off prospective ones - if the companies don't hire them as "security consultants...
...would run for re-election as an independent after the rpr excommunicated him last October. As Chirac tried to distance himself from his troublesome successor, Tiberi often hinted that he would reveal details of financial hanky-panky during Chirac's tenure as mayor. "Tiberi portrays himself as a victim," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center of French Political Life, "but he is the one who is making the right lose Paris. He incarnates the worst of the municipal system-corruption, influence-peddling, mediocrity and nepotism...
Africa is being threatened by its own culture of male pride, intimidation, sexual entitlement, carelessness and gender- neutral cruelty. Don't blame the West for the epidemic of AIDS. This particular crime against humanity is being perpetrated by a culture in which the criminal is also the victim. Prevention should be the key strategy, but until the African culture opens its eyes to its part in this tragedy, it will be a losing battle. PATTI LAMB Richmond, Texas...
Federal hate-crimes legislation has been on the books since 1969, but stronger and more comprehensive revisions are needed. Currently, individuals can be prosecuted under federal law if they commit a crime against an individual due to racial, religious or national bias, and the victim is engaged in a "federally protected activity." "Federally protected activities" include voting, serving on a jury, registering for school, taking part in a federal program and not much else. So the current hate-crimes legislation is limited in two ways. It only covers crimes based on race, religion or national bias (to the exclusion...
...Gallaudet University, a college for the deaf; with two counts of felony murder; in Washington. Mesa, a resident of Guam, dismayed and relieved a terror-stricken campus by admitting that robbery was his motive for killing two freshmen classmates in their dorms, one early this month with the victim's own knife. The other, weak with cerebral palsy, was bludgeoned to death last year. Mesa had no criminal record and had planned to devote his career to the deaf...