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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By John Markoff / The Bulletin
October 30, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — How much money can criminals make scaring naive computer users? Try $5 million a year.
That is how much a marketing associate of one Russian operation appears to be earning from its sales of fake anti-virus software through an elaborate scheme that relies on e-mail spam....