California has a new state department fighting identity theft. State Attorney General Kamala Harris anounced today that a new eCrime Unit has been formed under the the Department of Justice. The unit has been in operation since August and includes 20 attorneys and investigators They will be prosecuting identity theft, computer theft, child pornography and exploitation as well as other high tech crimes.
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Examples of crimes that the unit will prosecute include identity theft, fraud through use of the internet, theft of computer components or services, intellectual property crimes su…
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SAN JOSE, Calif (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Tuesday the creation of a relatively new criminal unit to investigate and prosecute identity theft, child…
Since the unit has been formed they have been able to break up one ATM skimming operation. They charged another person in connection with counterfeit jewelry seizing 1.5 million in goods.
They were also successfully brought charges against a Sacramento man for hacking into emails and facebook accounts as well as blackmail. He was recently sentenced to four years in a California prison.
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