September 8th, 2006
Today's Links: Crime online - sex, drugs, gambling
“TODAY’S LINKS” September 8, 2006
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TODAY’S LINKS September 8, 2006 FOCUS ON CRIME ONLINE: Prostitution 2.0, Craigslist Goes to Pot, Online Gambling is a Risky Bet, And did you catch…
PROSTITUTION 2.0
"Vice Officers use Internet to catch would be prostitutes" Kten.com
The sex trade embraces Read-Write Web:
prostitutes are going high-tech and using the Internet to ply their trade. Oklahoma City vice lieutenant Doug Kimberlin says investigators monitor several Web sites for prostitution advertisements…
Kimberlin says some of the Web sites even feature escort reviews, which he says are customer’s reviews of prostitutes.
In addition to patrolling the sites, Kimberlin says investigators have posted ads of their own and even arrested one man for attempting to set up a meeting for sex.
CRAIGSLIST GOES TO POT
"Craigslist provides a market for pot peddlers" ArbiterOnline
You really can find anything you want at Craigslist; The free classifeds site is "being used as an Information Age black market for some marijuana dealers."
"I’m not too concerned about getting caught," said Eric, a Bellevue, Wash., man in his early thirties who peddles pot online through craigslist.
Local and federal law enforcement officials said they’re aware dealers like Eric are turning to craigslist and other Web sites to sell pot, but the amounts sold are generally so small they’re not very concerned.
Eric says he doesn’t make much of a profit-if any-but sells enough marijuana to smoke for free.
ONLINE GAMBLING IS A RISKY BET
"Internet gambling stocks dive after arrest; Second executive held in crackdown, U.S. targets sports betting companies" TheStar.com
Moral of the story: the "house" doesn’t always win.
More than $1.5 billion (U.S.) in market value evaporated from the global online gambling industry yesterday after U.S. authorities arrested Peter Dicks, the chairman of Britain’s Sportingbet PLC.
Dicks, 64, was arrested in New York on a warrant issued in Louisiana for gambling by computer. His arrest comes less than two months after former BetOnSports PLC chief executive David Carruthers was arrested, charged with crimes including racketeering and fraud…
Jake Kalpakian, chief executive officer of Vancouver-based Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment Inc., said industry executives are still worried about travelling to the United States.
AND DID YOU CATCH…
In "Google, Yahoo click faud audits: when will advertisers demand them?" I discuss the financial risks from what could be the next great online crime, click fraud,:
When advertising with either Google or Yahoo, advertisers capitulate to the search engines’ modus operandi of being at once judge, jury and witness in any questioning of Pay Per Click advertising charges…
The cold, hard facts of search engine Pay Per Click advertiser agreements trump Google and Yahoo public relations bravado aiming to mollify advertisers into accepting, at face value, search engine claims that invoiced charges are justified…
Google and Yahoo do not believe advertisers have the right to secure independent audits of their invoiced charges.
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