Police Charge Students With Internet Scam

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Guardian

Friday January 7, 2005 4:46 PM


SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Four Sydney high school students have been charged in connection with a Russian-based Internet scam that stole people's banking passwords and siphoned their cash into accounts in eastern Europe, police said.

The four students were promised a cut of the profits for letting their bank accounts be used for laundering money stolen from Internet bankers via a computer virus that dropped a program for secretly recording passwords, police said.

They said 13 Australians, including the students, have so far been charged. New South Wales state police on Thursday said the four students, ages 15-17, cannot be named for legal reasons.

Authorities say the suspects robbed 61 people of at least $457,000. They say the total could ultimately reach millions, and more arrests are expected.

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