Tech fraud poses threat to U.S., attorney general says in San Jose
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that rising world a plethora of products, some of Rip-offs of technology in Silicon Valley, is generating huge profits for organized crime and even terrorist groups.
Crime groups, the theft of intellectual property “as a lucrative business, and see it as a low risk, as other activities to be funded,” said Mukasey and comments on the collection organized by the San Jose and Silicon Valley in the United States Chambers of Commerce.
At the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey warned that the proliferation of fake medicines, medical equipment and fake spare parts for fake cars, aircraft and electronic devices, “a real and immediate risk to the public . ”
In one case last month, announced the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police become a ring that was distributing counterfeit currency Cisco Systems network equipment manufactured in China.
Among the buyers, according to reports, Marine Corps, Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI.
“So far we have more than 400 seizures of fake labels of equipment and retailing with an estimated value of more than $ 76 million - and the investigation is not yet complete,” said Mukasey of Cisco.
The Ministry of Justice has increased steadily “intellectual property criminal,” he said, listing 217 cases in the past year have increased by 33 percent in 2005.
In one of them, 25 were arrested Chinese nationals from China
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Department of Public Safety, the requisition of more than half a billion dollars in pirated software in the largest and China and the FBI investigation ever conducted joint.
The Department of Justice is also targeting hackers oasis “in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the cooperation of local authorities with the criminal prosecution authorities. In November, magistrates and the FBI arrested 11 Romanian Romanian citizens who are part of a gang crime, false credit cards and debit personal data, “phishing” or sending fake e-mails naive users.
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