Mon, May 19 2008 14:17 Don

38 in U.S., Romania charged in phishing schemes

Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two federal indictments alleging that they used complicated Internet phishing schemes to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers, U.S. and Romanian authorities said today.

The indictments, in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the District of Connecticut, focus on two related phishing schemes with ties to organized crime, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Phishing involves sending e-mail messages that look like official correspondence from banks or credit card vendors in attempts to get recipients to go to fake Web sites and enter their account numbers.

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