Daddy Warbucks to the Rescue

Bill Gates' Microsoft has filed 117 phishing lawsuits.

The lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, seek to identify large-scale scam operations and recover damages from so-called phishing operations. Phishers typically send out spam e-mail, made to look like official e-mail from a real e-commerce company, asking recipients to click on a link and update their personal information. The link takes consumers to a Web site that mimics the look of the real e-commerce company's site, but collects personal information for ID thieves to use.

Microsoft is an almost universal target of gripes and complaints, but this, combined with the recent successful lawsuit against "SPAM King" Scott Richter, is a good thing!

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