The new face of cybercrime | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "Phillip Hallam-Baker
You once could explain away Internet attacks as destruction for destruction's sake. But many of the juvenile delinquents of the 1990s have since graduated from mere vandalism to hacking for monetary gain.
One of the consequences of this change is spam. Who hasn't received dubious e-mail propositions from people purporting to be Nigerian merchants? Respond to them, and you risk joining a crowd of people who have lost huge sums in scams run by organized crime. "
