Topic: Scams

How Hackers Allegedly Made $14 Million on Traffic Scams

Preet Bharara
AP

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced indictments against seven Europeans it said operated a massive online fraud scheme that made them $14 million by infecting millions of computers worldwide with malware that redirected Internet searches to fake sites.

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By Adam Martin

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