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Minn. man suspected of encouraging suicides (AP)

Minn. man suspected of encouraging suicides

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two deaths and could face criminal ...


Technology, sour economy breed, feed Internet scams

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ute Schnetzinger thought the bride was demanding. Only later did the Richardson, Texas, florist learn she was bogus.


Swedish telecom supplier Tele2

Swedish Internet firm to delete user data

Technology / Internet

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Swedish telecom supplier Tele2 said Monday it will delete information allowing their customers to be identified, a move police argue could make the hunt for Internet pirates "impossible."


Reports of Internet crime jump 33 percent

Technology / Internet

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008, according to a group that monitors web-based fraud.


More Internet predators are challenging agents

Technology / Internet

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(AP) -- Eric Szatkowski is a Wisconsin Justice Department special agent, but on that Sunday afternoon he entered an online chat room as a 14-year-old boy. He claimed he was into weightlifting, AC/DC and muscle magazines. ...