7 Charged In Web Scam Using Ads
By SOMINI SENGUPTA and JENNA WORTHAM
NYT
It was a subtle swap: a cheesy advertisement for a vacation timeshare atop the home page of ESPN.com, in a spot that might have been claimed by a well-known brand like Dr Pepper.
Those who saw swapped ads, federal prosecutors say, might never have known that their computer had been drawn into a complex Internet advertising scam that they say generated $14 million for its creators.
Over the last four years, a group of men in Eastern Europe quietly hijacked millions of computers worldwide and diverted unsuspecting users to online advertisements from which they could profit, federal law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
Six men, all in their 20s and early 30s, are under arrest in Estonia for what the United States attorney’s office in New York called “a massive and sophisticated Internet fraud scheme.” A Russian suspect in the case remains at large.
(More here.)
NYT
It was a subtle swap: a cheesy advertisement for a vacation timeshare atop the home page of ESPN.com, in a spot that might have been claimed by a well-known brand like Dr Pepper.
Those who saw swapped ads, federal prosecutors say, might never have known that their computer had been drawn into a complex Internet advertising scam that they say generated $14 million for its creators.
Over the last four years, a group of men in Eastern Europe quietly hijacked millions of computers worldwide and diverted unsuspecting users to online advertisements from which they could profit, federal law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
Six men, all in their 20s and early 30s, are under arrest in Estonia for what the United States attorney’s office in New York called “a massive and sophisticated Internet fraud scheme.” A Russian suspect in the case remains at large.
(More here.)
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